We present an Agent Based Model (ABM) named MIMICS (Modeling Inferential Minds in Conceptual Space), which shows how a social group develops abstract concepts for achieving agreement in communication. Agents describe concepts by assigning properties to them based on learning and communication interactions, trying to develop a conceptual space that discriminates as much as possible between two c...

In this article, we present a set of analytical tools aimed at clarifying some simulation results of social actors behaviors in social organizations. These tools are used within a meta-model of social organizations structure, which is the result of a formalization of the Sociology of Organized Action theory. Following this formalization, the structure of a social organization is depicted by som...

A central idea in social psychology is that people can construe other people in terms of two types of mental representations: social categories (e.g. male) and attributes (e.g. intelligent). It is assumed that assigning a person to a social category (i.e. social categorization) is one of the most important causes of stereotyping. However, no theory has yet successfully explicated the properties...