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This paper reports on an agent-based model that represents social mobilisation as the collective provision of a public good. The model represents processes of social influence, temporal dynamics, and collectives of agents each behaviourally grounded in the HAPPenInGS theory (Heterogeneous Agents Providing Public Goods) of preference-guided action selection of individuals in public good dilemmas [1]. We introduce the HAPPenInGS theory and present results of a series of simulation exercises scrutinising the interplay of individual-level preferences, perceptions and behaviours, and macro-level outcomes.
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Krebs, F. (2014). The Interaction of Social Conformity and Social orientation in Public Good Dilemmas. In: Kamiński, B., Koloch, G. (eds) Advances in Social Simulation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39829-2_13
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