SIMULATING ELEMENTARY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Abstract

The author's work in developing a computer model (HOMUNCULUS) is based on George Homans' publication, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms. HOMUNCULUS is an attempt to explicate, in a way not possible with verbal theory, the ability of a person in normal social interacti n to evaluate the context of behavior, retrieve information necessary to alternative plans of action, and select the conditions under which he will undertake one activity rather than another. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1962
Accession Number
AD0288584

Entities

People

  • Jeanne E. Gullahorn
  • John T. Gullahorn

Organizations

  • System Development Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Human Behavior

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Psychology

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Organizational Psychology.