Dr. Ross Gore

Dr. Ross Gore

I am Research Associate Professor at Old Dominion University My work focuses on data science and predictive analytics. I am is passionate about extracting useful information from new and diverse data sources to help inform decision making.

A network agent-based model of ethnocentrism and intergroup cooperation

Published in Quality & Quantity, 2020

We present a network agent-based model of ethnocentrism and intergroup cooperation in which agents from two groups (majority and minority) change their communality (feeling of group solidarity), cooperation strategy and social ties, depending on a barrier of likeness (affinity). Our purpose was to study the models capability for describing how the mechanisms of preexisting markers (or “tags”) that can work as cues for inducing in-group bias, imitation, and reaction to non-cooperating agents, lead to ethnocentrism or intergroup cooperation and influence the formation of the network of mixed ties between agents of different groups.

Recommended citation: Lemos, Carlos M; Gore, Ross J; Lessard-Phillips, Laurence; Shults, F LeRon. (2020). "A network agent-based model of ethnocentrism and intergroup cooperation." Quality & Quantity. 54(2), 463-489.
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