{"title":"Modelling the effect of religion on human empathy based on an adaptive temporal-causal network model.","authors":"Laila van Ments, Peter Roelofsma, Jan Treur","doi":"10.1186/s40649-017-0049-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Religion is a central aspect of many individuals' lives around the world, and its influence on human behaviour has been extensively studied from many different perspectives.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The current study integrates a number of these perspectives into one adaptive temporal-causal network model describing the mental states involved, their mutual relations, and the adaptation of some of these relations over time due to learning.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>By first developing a conceptual representation of a network model based on the literature, and then formalizing this model into a numerical representation, simulations can be done for almost any kind of religion and person, showing different behaviours for persons with different religious backgrounds and characters. The focus was mainly on the influence of religion on human empathy and dis-empathy, a topic very relevant today.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The developed model could be valuable for many uses, involving support for a better understanding, and even prediction, of the behaviour of religious individuals. It is illustrated for a number of different scenarios based on different characteristics of the persons and of the religion.</p>","PeriodicalId":52145,"journal":{"name":"Computational Social Networks","volume":"5 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40649-017-0049-z","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computational Social Networks","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40649-017-0049-z","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2018/1/5 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Mathematics","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 19
Abstract
Background: Religion is a central aspect of many individuals' lives around the world, and its influence on human behaviour has been extensively studied from many different perspectives.
Methods: The current study integrates a number of these perspectives into one adaptive temporal-causal network model describing the mental states involved, their mutual relations, and the adaptation of some of these relations over time due to learning.
Results: By first developing a conceptual representation of a network model based on the literature, and then formalizing this model into a numerical representation, simulations can be done for almost any kind of religion and person, showing different behaviours for persons with different religious backgrounds and characters. The focus was mainly on the influence of religion on human empathy and dis-empathy, a topic very relevant today.
Conclusions: The developed model could be valuable for many uses, involving support for a better understanding, and even prediction, of the behaviour of religious individuals. It is illustrated for a number of different scenarios based on different characteristics of the persons and of the religion.
期刊介绍：
Computational Social Networks showcases refereed papers dealing with all mathematical, computational and applied aspects of social computing. The objective of this journal is to advance and promote the theoretical foundation, mathematical aspects, and applications of social computing. Submissions are welcome which focus on common principles, algorithms and tools that govern network structures/topologies, network functionalities, security and privacy, network behaviors, information diffusions and influence, social recommendation systems which are applicable to all types of social networks and social media. Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: -Social network design and architecture -Mathematical modeling and analysis -Real-world complex networks -Information retrieval in social contexts, political analysts -Network structure analysis -Network dynamics optimization -Complex network robustness and vulnerability -Information diffusion models and analysis -Security and privacy -Searching in complex networks -Efficient algorithms -Network behaviors -Trust and reputation -Social Influence -Social Recommendation -Social media analysis -Big data analysis on online social networks This journal publishes rigorously refereed papers dealing with all mathematical, computational and applied aspects of social computing. The journal also includes reviews of appropriate books as special issues on hot topics.
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
京公网安备 11010802042870号
