Modelling terror management theory: computer simulations of the impact of mortality salience on religiosity

Shults, F. LeRon; Lane, Justin E.; Wildman, Wesley J.; Diallo, Saikou Y.; Lynch, Christopher J.; Gore, Ross

doi:10.1080/2153599x.2016.1238846

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“…Network visualizations provide power for data integrations and transformations in revealing ways that can confirm hypotheses or identify new hypotheses by exploring the results of batches of experiments [125]. Network representations provide connecting links between individuals or groups of individuals and can include: social; kindred; online; neighborhood; workplace; religious; and many other types of networks [130,[133][134][135].…”

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“…Dean, Gumerman [142] illuminate the importance of demographic and environmental interactions in recreating histories of sociocultural stability and variation among the Anasazi culture. In both Shults, Lane [134] and Shults, Gore [135], a combination of statistical debugging and visual analytics techniques are utilized to verify the personal-based and environmental-based interactions within their respective models with respect to their intended model designs.…”

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A content analysis-based approach to explore simulation verification and identify its current challenges

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Verification is a crucial process to facilitate the identification and removal of errors within simulations. This study explores semantic changes to the concept of simulation verification over the past six decades using a data-supported, automated content analysis approach. We collect and utilize a corpus of 4,047 peer-reviewed Modeling and Simulation (M&S) publications dealing with a wide range of studies of simulation verification from 1963 to 2015. We group the selected papers by decade of publication to provide insights and explore the corpus from four perspectives: (i) the positioning of prominent concepts across the corpus as a whole; (ii) a comparison of the prominence of verification, validation, and Verification and Validation (V&V) as separate concepts; (iii) the positioning of the concepts specifically associated with verification; and (iv) an evaluation of verification's defining characteristics within each decade. Our analysis reveals unique characterizations of verification in each decade. The insights gathered helped to identify and discuss three categories of verification challenges as avenues of future research, awareness, and understanding for researchers, students, and practitioners. These categories include conveying confidence and maintaining ease of use; techniques' coverage abilities for handling increasing simulation complexities; and new ways to provide error feedback to model users.

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“…MERV was an adaptation of a previously published model of the impact of the mechanisms postulated by terror management theory (TMT) on religiosity (Shults et al 2018). Research in the literature on TMT suggests that anxiety related to death awareness tends to ratchet up religiosity both in terms of scanning for invisible causes and scrambling to protect in-groups (Norenzayan et al 2008;McGregor et al 1998).…”

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Preprint - Why do the Godless Prosper?

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This article offers an affirmative construal of atheism: the attempt to make sense of the world with naturalist explanations and to act sensibly in society following secularist principles (i.e., without relying on supernatural agents or complying with supernatural authorities). After briefly describing the conceptual framework behind this positive conception of a non-religious worldview, we outline the construction and present the findings of two computational models that simulate some of the cognitive and coalitional mechanisms that engender and nurture religious and non-religious worldviews. These models allow us to explore the causal dynamics within complex adaptive systems involving (dis)belief in supernatural agents and (dis)affiliation from religious institutions.

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“…Turning to psychological costs of religiosity, Arrowood et al found that quest religiosity exacerbated the negative effects of MS on self-esteem. Finally, Shults, Lane, Diallo, Lynch, Wildman, and Gore (2017) present computational models that simulate the relationship between MS and religiosity, and propose suggestions for future research.…”

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Guest editors' foreword: On the importance of integrating terror management and psychology of religion

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Modelling terror management theory: computer simulations of the impact of mortality salience on religiosity

Cited by 43 publications

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A content analysis-based approach to explore simulation verification and identify its current challenges

A content analysis-based approach to explore simulation verification and identify its current challenges

Preprint - Why do the Godless Prosper?

Guest editors' foreword: On the importance of integrating terror management and psychology of religion

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