In this contribution we aim at anchoring ABM simulations in actual models of human psychology. More specifically, we apply unidirectional Agent Based Modeling (ABM) to social psychological models using low level agents (i.e., intra-individual) to examine whether they generate better predictions,...

Recently, crowdsourcing has been proposed as a tool for fighting misinformation online. Will internet users listen to crowdsourced fact-checking? In this experiment we test whether participants follow others’ opinion to evaluate the validity of a science-themed Facebook post, and examine which...

Personality questionnaires have been used and can be used to predict behavior in economic settings. Using two sets of state-of-the-art measures from personality psychology (the Big Six) and social psychology (Social Value Orientation), we find that the behavior of men is predictable in the first...