MIND AND CULTURE

CMAC has pioneered the use of modeling & simulation to recreate and study religious phenomena, such as secularization, religious extremism and violence, and the neurocomputational study of religious belief. In recent years, we have broadened our horizons to capture the nuances of human behavior outside of religious practice. By expanding our focus, we gain a more comprehensive understanding of the intricate interplay between culture, cognition, and social dynamics. We have worked with subject-matter experts in fields such as mental health, economics, public health, ethics, and data science. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach has allowed us to build psychologically realistic and behaviorally plausible artificial societies. These contain individual agents making everyday decisions that can be studied, and society-wide policy interventions that can be tested on an experimental platform designed to replicate real-world complexities... The Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC) is driven..

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