Expectations and Coordination in Small Groups

Sirianni, Antonio D.

doi:10.1108/s0882-614520180000035008

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“…ABMs have demonstrated the importance of individual cognition and preferences on collective outcomes, such as how homophily and social influence can lead to segregation (Schelling 1969) or polarization (DellaPosta et. al 2018;DellaPosta 2020), how deferential norms can generate stratified and hierarchical networks (Manzo and Baldassarri 2015) and facilitate group cooperation (Sirianni 2018), and how associative reasoning can lead to opposing coalitions of norms and values in otherwise cohesive groups (Goldberg and Stein 2018).…”

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Attachment Preferences in Diverse Collective Problem-Solving Networks and Systemic Performance

Gomez¹,

Sirianni²,

Schweiger³

2021

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How do individual information-seeking preferences affect collective problem-solving in diverse settings? We often choose whom we collaborate with or seek information from. Self-selection can be driven by proclivities towards perceived merit or a preference for those who offer a different perspective. Yet our preferences can have profound systemic outcomes, even if opportunities abound to interact with diversity. We build upon the extensive tradition of collective problem-solving using agent-based modeling (ABM) to test this. We populate communicative networks of diverse problem-solving agents tasked with solving a complex problem too difficult to do alone. Agents can either exploit their neighbors’ solutions or explore for a new solution using their unique and diverse problem-solving ability. However, agents are also allowed to seek out new ties from the network. We test three conditions, where diverse agents in the network harbor proclivities towards (1) diversity (different types of neighbors), (2) homophily (same type of neighbors), or (3) merit (the current performance of their neighbors irrespective of type). We find that diversity-seeking not only leads to higher quality solutions, but also allows for these solutions to better disseminate to the rest of the network.

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