This paper shows that when agents share more context they produce less informative languages, and provides a proof of concept and enables the testing of further hypotheses of the impact of shared context on language structure.
Hedvig Skirgård, Jérôme Michaud, Anna Jon-And· 0 citations
Collective polarization can arise through mechanisms acting at different stages of social communication, but similar polarized outcomes need not imply dynamically equivalent processes. We introduce a nonlinear two-group mean-field model that distinguishes three routes to polarization: individual content filtering, asso...
Short Abstract How has human culture become so complex? We argue that a key process is social tinkering: the gradual accumulation of ad hoc innovations to the social rules that coordinate behavior in response to immediate challenges. Momentary innovations provide precedents that can be reused, entrenched, adapted, and...
Anna Jon-And, Fredrik Jansson, Jérôme Michaud et al.· Behavioral and Brain Science...· 2 citations
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