Conference Agenda

Session

Sense & Sensibility: Modelling human deliberation and decision-making

Time:

Tuesday, 25/Aug/2026:

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Session Chair: Loïs Vanhée
Session Chair: Melania Borit

Location: Calman CLC013

Arnold Wolfendale lecture theatre, ground floor (400)

Presentations

2:00pm - 2:20pm

From Signals to Decisions: Characterising Political Decision Dynamics in Agent-Based Policy Models

Ivan Puga Gonzalez¹, Larissa L. Lima¹, Onder Gurcan¹, Vanja Falck¹, F. LeRon Shults¹, David Eric John Herbert², Markus G. Rousseau¹, Christopher Franz³

¹NORCE Research AS, Norway; ²University of Bergen, Norway; ³Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

2:20pm - 2:40pm

Does implementing a more realistic memory affect opinion dynamics in social simulations?

Renée Lucia Roelofsen, Wander Jager, Niels Taatgen

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands, The

2:40pm - 3:00pm

Consumption, Comparison, and Well-Being: Testing a Needs-Based Consumption Model Against Stylized Facts

Michelle Alfers

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany