Modeling Religious Change (MRC) is a multi-million-dollar project dedicated to advancing our understanding of religious and nonreligious identity and change by developing a tool for scholars and policy makers to explore demographic analysis and forecasting. Although MRC began in 2020, we have…
Does religion play a causal role in promoting anxiety between groups? In a recent paper published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, CMAC researchers collaborated with the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) to study anxiety…
Research Associate LeRon Shults, Research Associate Ross Gore, Executive Director Wesley J. Wildman, Collaborating Specialist Christopher Lynch, Post-Doctoral Fellow Justin E. Lane, and Collaborating Specialist Monica Toft Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 21(4) October 2018 Abstract: We propose…
Research Associate LeRon Shults and Ross Gore, Collaborating Specialist Carlos Lemos and Executive Director Wesley Wildman Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Volume 10 Issue 3 August 2018 Abstract: This article offers an affirmative construal of atheism: the attempt to make sense…
Research Associate LeRon Shults Seventh International Conference of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought: Evolution and Transcendence June 20, 2018 Conference Summary: The theme of the 2018 IARPT conference is human transcendence considered in light of biocultural evolution. Central…
Research Associate LeRon Shults February 12, 2018 Book Description: Where do gods come from – and what is the cost of bearing them? In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults argues for the importance of having “the talk” about the causes and consequences…
Research Associates Ross Gore and LeRon Shults, Executive Director Wesley Wildman and Co-Authors Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation January 31, 2018 Abstract: We employ existing data sets and agent-based modeling to forecast changes in religiosity and existential security among…
Collaborating Specialist Carlos Lemos 2018 Book Description: This Brief revisits and extends Epstein’s classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories. Among them are: relative deprivation as generator of hardship, generalized vanishing of the…
Executive Director Wesley Wildman, Research Associate LeRon Shults and Co-Author Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference December 2017 Abstract: Human simulation (applying Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to topics in the humanities, the interpretative social sciences, and the arts) is a…
The MODRN team is meeting this August to touch base about the rapid progress of the project and collaborate on further research. Check out this video preview of what they’ll be up to today at the colloquium!
Research Associates LeRon Shults and Uffe Schjodt International Association for the Psychology of Religion: Culture, Context and Existential Challenges August 23, 2017 Conference Summary: The International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR) holds bi-annual conferences that serve as a meeting…
The MODRN team will be meeting to develop models and analyze findings in Lesbos Greece this coming May. Here’s a video preview of their work there!
Research Associate LeRon Shults Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research Opening March 2017 Summary: Using Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligence Models to Simulate Social Policy Learn More