scholarly journals Towards Social Identity in Socio-Cognitive Agents

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11390
Author(s):  
Diogo Rato ◽  
Rui Prada
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Agent Architectures ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Group Memberships

Current architectures for social agents are designed around some specific units of social behavior that address particular challenges, such as modeling beliefs and motivations, establishing social relationships, or understanding group memberships. Although their performance might be adequate for controlled environments, deploying these agents in the wild is difficult. Moreover, the increasing demand for autonomous agents capable of living alongside humans calls for the design of more robust social agents that can cope with diverse social situations. We believe that to design such agents, their sociality and cognition should be conceived as one. This includes creating mechanisms for constructing social reality as an interpretation of the physical world with social meanings and selective deployment of cognitive resources adequate to the situation. We identify several design principles that should be considered while designing agent architectures for socio-cognitive systems. Taking these remarks into account, we propose a socio-cognitive agent model based on the concept of cognitive social frames that allow the adaptation of an agent’s cognition based on its interpretation of its surroundings, its social context. Our approach supports an agent’s reasoning about other social actors and its relationship with them. Cognitive social frames can be built around social groups, and form the basis for social group dynamics mechanisms and construct of social identity.

scholarly journals Intergroup and intragroup dimensions of COVID-19: A social identity perspective on social fragmentation and unity

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Abrams ◽  
Fanny Lalot ◽  
Michael A. Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Social Fragmentation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Management ◽  
Psychological Challenge ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
People’S Perceptions

COVID-19 is a challenge faced by individuals (personal vulnerability and behavior), requiring coordinated policy from national government. However, another critical layer—intergroup relations—frames many decisions about how resources and support should be allocated. Based on theories of self and social identity uncertainty, subjective group dynamics, leadership, and social cohesion, we argue that this intergroup layer has important implications for people’s perceptions of their own and others’ situation, political management of the pandemic, how people are influenced, and how they resolve identity uncertainty. In the face of the pandemic, initial national or global unity is prone to intergroup fractures and competition through which leaders can exploit uncertainties to gain short-term credibility, power, or influence for their own groups, feeding polarization and extremism. Thus, the social and psychological challenge is how to sustain the superordinate objective of surviving and recovering from the pandemic through mutual cross-group effort.

scholarly journals Ensuring Sustainability of Kacip Fatimah (Labisia Pumila) Through Ex-Situ Conservation

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Farah Fazwa Md Ariff ◽  
Norhayati Saffie ◽  
Syafiqah Nabilah Samsul Bahari ◽  
Mohamad Zaki Abdullah ◽  
Mohd Asri Lias
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Breeding Strategy ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Whole Plant ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Labisia Pumila ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Planting Materials ◽  
Over Exploitation

Labisia pumila or locally known as Kacip Fatimah of the family Myrsinaceae is one of the popular herbal species in Malaysia. The leaves or the whole plant are being traditionally used to treat women internal problem and health. Other medicinal uses of the plant are as a treatment for dysentery, flatulence, dysmenorrhoea and gonorrhoea. The increasing demand of the plants for those usages has lead to the over-exploitation in the wild and might endanger the species if no conservation activities are being carried out. Beside the danger of extinction, the species also experience severe genetic loss and shortage of raw materials. Realizing to this, Plant Improvement Programme of Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) has taken an initiative to ex-situ conserve the species through the establishment of germplasm and development of breeding strategy. The purpose is to avoid extinction of the species and to produce high quality planting materials for commercial production. This paper discusses the collection, selection, propagation and establishment of clonal bank/germplasm of the species. It is anticipated that with the initiative, the sustainability of the species can be ensured to support the industries demand in the future.

scholarly journals Towards Learning ‘Self’ and Emotional Knowledge in Social and Cultural Human-Agent Interactions

2011 ◽  
pp. 305-324
Author(s):  
Wan Ching Ho ◽  
Kerstin Dautenhahn ◽  
Meiyii Lim ◽  
Sibylle Enz ◽  
Carsten Zoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Agent Interactions ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
The World ◽  
Intelligent Virtual Agents ◽  
Emotional Knowledge

This article presents research towards the development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) inhabited by intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and modelling a scenario of inter-cultural interactions. The ultimate aim of this VLE is to allow users to reflect upon and learn about intercultural communication and collaboration. Rather than predefining the interactions among the virtual agents and scripting the possible interactions afforded by this environment, we pursue a bottom-up approach whereby inter-cultural communication emerges from interactions with and among autonomous agents and the user(s). The intelligent virtual agents that are inhabiting this environment are expected to be able to broaden their knowledge about the world and other agents, which may be of different cultural backgrounds, through interactions. This work is part of a collaborative effort within a European research project called eCIRCUS. Specifically, this article focuses on our continuing research concerned with emotional knowledge learning in autobiographic social agents.

scholarly journals Towards Learning ‘Self' and Emotional Knowledge in Social and Cultural Human-Agent Interactions

2010 ◽  
pp. 602-621
Author(s):  
Wan Ching Ho ◽  
Kerstin Dautenhahn ◽  
Meiyii Lim ◽  
Sibylle Enz ◽  
Carsten Zoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Agent Interactions ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
The World ◽  
Intelligent Virtual Agents ◽  
Emotional Knowledge

This article presents research towards the development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) inhabited by intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and modelling a scenario of inter-cultural interactions. The ultimate aim of this VLE is to allow users to reflect upon and learn about intercultural communication and collaboration. Rather than predefining the interactions among the virtual agents and scripting the possible interactions afforded by this environment, we pursue a bottom-up approach whereby inter-cultural communication emerges from interactions with and among autonomous agents and the user(s). The intelligent virtual agents that are inhabiting this environment are expected to be able to broaden their knowledge about the world and other agents, which may be of different cultural backgrounds, through interactions. This work is part of a collaborative effort within a European research project called eCIRCUS. Specifically, this article focuses on our continuing research concerned with emotional knowledge learning in autobiographic social agents.

Social Identity, Stigma, and Health

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanda Jetten ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
Tegan Cruwys ◽  
Nyla R. Branscombe
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Positive Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Group Memberships ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that an understanding of social identity processes is critical to understand when and how stigma affects health. This chapter presents a social identity analysis of the relationship between stigma and health and starts from the premise that it is particularly difficult for individuals who belong to stigmatized groups to derive a positive identity from their social group memberships. However, when individuals turn to the stigmatized group, identify with it, and draw social support from others within it, their health will be buffered against some of the negative consequences of discrimination because group memberships—and the social identities that are derived from them—act as psychological resources. Perceptions of the broader sociostructural context that affect appraisals of discrimination and coping with stigma play an important role in determining whether the curing properties of group memberships are unlocked, turning the curse of belonging to a stigmatized group into a cure.

Bayesian Agencies in Control

2011 ◽  
pp. 168-181
Author(s):  
Anet Potgieter ◽  
Judith Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Probabilistic Reasoning ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Agent Architectures ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Agent Systems ◽  
Interaction Protocols ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
The Individual

Most agent architectures implement autonomous agents that use extensive interaction protocols and social laws to control interactions in order to ensure that the correct behaviors result during run-time. These agents, organized into multi-agent systems in which all agents adhere to predefined interaction protocols, are well suited to the analysis, design and implementation of complex systems in environments where it is possible to predict interactions during the analysis and design phases. In these multi-agent systems, intelligence resides in individual autonomous agents, rather than in the collective behavior of the individual agents. These agents are commonly referred to as “next-generation” or intelligent components, which are difficult to implement using current component-based architectures. In most distributed environments, such as the Internet, it is not possible to predict interactions during analysis and design. For a complex system to be able to adapt in such an uncertain and non-deterministic environment, we propose the use of agencies, consisting of simple agents, which use probabilistic reasoning to adapt to their environment. Our agents collectively implement distributed Bayesian networks, used by the agencies to control behaviors in response to environmental states. Each agency is responsible for one or more behaviors, and the agencies are structured into heterarchies according to the topology of the underlying Bayesian networks. We refer to our agents and agencies as “Bayesian agents” and “Bayesian agencies.”

Design Patterns for Social Intelligent Agent Architectures Implementation

2021 ◽  
pp. 294-319
Author(s):  
Manuel Kolp ◽  
Yves Wautelet ◽  
Samedi Heng
Keyword(s):  
Design Patterns ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Multi Agent Systems ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
Agent Architectures ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Agent Oriented Software Engineering ◽  
Multi Agent

Multi-agent systems (MAS) architectures are popular for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by today's business IT applications such as e-business systems, web services, or enterprise knowledge bases. Since the fundamental concepts of MAS are social and intentional rather than object, functional, or implementation-oriented, the design of MAS architectures can be eased by using social patterns. They are detailed agent-oriented design idioms to describe MAS architectures as composed of autonomous agents that interact and coordinate to achieve their intentions like actors in human organizations. This chapter presents social patterns and focuses on a framework aimed to gain insight into these patterns. The framework can be integrated into agent-oriented software engineering methodologies used to build MAS. The authors consider the broker social pattern to illustrate the framework. The mapping from system architectural design (through organizational architectural styles), to system detailed design (through social patterns), is overviewed with a data integration case study.

The Futurians, Gamergate, and Fandom

2022 ◽  
pp. 234-249
Author(s):  
Julia Crouse Waddell
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Shared Interest ◽  
Fan Clubs ◽  
Formation Of Groups

From the science fiction fan clubs of the 1930s to the modern gamers, devoted fans have found one another and formed groups bonded over their shared interest. As groups formed, social identities began to emerge, distinguishing ingroups and outgroups. Social identity theory helps to explain the formation of groups as well as inevitable competition over resources and power. As technology became more sophisticated, fans were able to communicate with greater ease facilitating ingroup social identification. The inherent properties of video games reinforce both the cooperation among ingroup members as well as the rivalry with outgroups. Understanding the mechanisms within video games as well as the affordances of CMC and social media help to explain the group dynamics that support the Gamergate social identity.

Calling in Black: a dynamic model of racially traumatic events, resourcing, and safety

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 767-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. McCluney ◽  
Courtney M. Bryant ◽  
Danielle D. King ◽  
Abdifatah A. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Response Options ◽  
Managing Diversity ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Black Employees

Purpose Racially traumatic events – such as police violence and brutality toward Blacks – affect individuals in and outside of work. Black employees may “call in Black” to avoid interacting with coworkers in organizations that lack resources and perceived identity and psychological safety. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The paper integrates event system theory (EST), resourcing, and psychological safety frameworks to understand how external, racially traumatic events impact Black employees and organizations. As racially traumatic events are linked to experienced racial identity threat, the authors discuss the importance of both the availability and creation of resources to help employees to maintain effective workplace functioning, despite such difficult circumstances. Findings Organizational and social-identity resourcing may cultivate social, material, and cognitive resources for black employees to cope with threats to their racial identity after racially traumatic events occur. The integration of organizational and social-identity resourcing may foster identity and psychologically safe workplaces where black employees may feel valued and reduce feelings of racial identity threats. Research limitations/implications Implications for both employees’ social-identity resourcing practice and organizational resource readiness and response options are discussed. Originality/value The authors present a novel perspective for managing diversity and inclusion through EST. Further, the authors identify the interaction of individual agency and organizational resources to support Black employees.

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