Happiness and Human Relations: The Role of Materialistic Values. An ABM Illustration
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https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2014.253Keywords:
Multi-Agent Systems, Social, Agents, Happiness, Relational Values, Materialistic ValuesAbstract
This paper argues that a person’s happiness must be understood as a phenomenon that emerges not only from her individual condition but also from her place in society. Understanding that a person is socially immersed implies giving a greater role to social interactions and social structure. The paper presents a simple model to take into consideration the role of human relations. An agent-based model (ABM) is used to illustrate the implementation of the model in understanding people’s happinessDownloads
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