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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Mapping collective behavior--beware of looping
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Markus Christen
  • Peter Brugger
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0140-525X
Volume 37
Number 1
Page Range 80 - 81
Date 2014
Abstract Text We discuss ambiguities of the two main dimensions of the map proposed by Bentley and colleagues that relate to the degree of self-reflection the observed agents have upon their behavior. This self-reflection is a variant of the "looping effect" which denotes that, in social research, the product of investigation influences the object of investigation. We outline how this can be understood as a dimension of "height" in the map of Bentley et al.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1017/S0140525X13001696
PubMed ID 24572221
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