Browsing AURA by Author "Shults, F. LeRon"
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Adapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation: A case study
Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Bacon, Rachel J.; Voas, David; Shults, F. LeRon; Hodulik, George; Wildman, Wesley J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Social scientists generally take United Nations (UN) population projections as the baseline when considering the potential impact of any changes that could affect fertility, mortality or migration, and the UN typically ... -
Agent-based modelling of values: The case of value sensitive design for refugee logistics
Boshuijzen-Van Burken, Christine; Gore, Ross; Dignum, Frank; Royakkers, Lamber; Wozny, Phillip; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We have used value sensitive design as a method to develop an agent-based model of values in humanitarian logistics for refugees. Schwartz’s theory of universal values is implemented in the model in such a way that agents ... -
Computational Decision Support for Socio-Technical Awareness of Land-Use Planning under Complexity—A Dam Resilience Planning Case Study
Tolk, Andreas; Richkus, Jennifer A.; Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Land-use planning for modern societies requires technical competence as well as social competence. We therefore propose an integrative solution enabling better land-use planning and management through better-informed ... -
Computer modeling in philosophy of religion
Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys
Kiszkiel, Lukasz; Paweł Laskowski, Piotr; Voas, David; Bacon, Rachel J.; Wildman, Wesley John; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Shults, F. LeRon; Talmont-Kaminski, Konrad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article presents the Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R), explains how it was constructed, and outlines its potential for helping to address long-standing research questions in the social scientific ... -
Dimensionality and factorial invariance of religiosity among Christians and the religiously unaffiliated: A cross-cultural analysis based on the International Social Survey Programme
Lemos, Carlos; Gore, Ross; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Dimensionality and factorial invariance of religiosity among Christians and the religiously unaffiliated: A cross-cultural analysis based on the International Social Survey Programme
Lemos, Carlos; Gore, Ross; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Generating Executable Code from High-Level Social or Socio-Ecological Model Descriptions
Xanthopoulou, Themis Dimitra; Prinz, Andreas; Shults, F. LeRon (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
How to Survive the Anthropocene: Adaptive Atheism and the Evolution of Homo deiparensis
Shults, F. LeRon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Why is it so easy to ignore the ecological and economic crises of the Anthropocene? This article unveils some of the religious biases whose covert operation facilitates the repression or rejection of warnings about the ... -
Human Simulation and Sustainability : Ontological, Epistemological, and Ethical Reflections
Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Human Simulation and Sustainability: Ontological, Epistemological, and Ethical Reflections
Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Minding morality : ethical artificial societies for public policy modeling
Diallo, Saikou; Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Public policies are designed to have an impact on particular societies, yet policy-oriented computer models and simulations often focus more on articulating the policies to be applied than on realistically rendering the ... -
Modeling nationalism, religiosity, and threat perception: During the COVID-19 pandemic
Bullock, Josh; Lane, Justin E.; Miklousic, Igor; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The rise of nationalism and populism in Europe has created significant political and policy challenges. Understanding and addressing these challenges will require attention to the psychological mechanisms and social dynamics ... -
A network agent-based model of ethnocentrism and intergroup cooperation
Lemos, Carlos; Gore, Ross; Lessard-Phillips, Laurence; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Paramilitaries, parochialism, and peace: The moral foundations and personality traits of SlovenskíBranci
Kosnáč, Pavol; Lane, Justin E.; Toft, Monica Duffy; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Paramilitary organizations have increasingly become a cause for concern among policy makers and the media in recent years, in part because the former are often seen as a potential threat to peace (or at least to the status ... -
Post-supernatural cultures : There and back again
Wildman, Wesley J.; Shults, F. LeRon; Diallo, Saikou; Gore, Ross; Lane, Justin E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Simulation, Science, and Stakeholders: Challenges and Opportunities for Modelling Solutions to Societal Problems
Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The article outlines an approach to computer modelling called “human simulation,” whose development has been explicitly oriented towards addressing societal problems through transdisciplinary efforts involving stakeholders, ... -
The trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion
Brouwer, Ari; Raison, Charles L.; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Fruitful comparison of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences requires a degree of phenomenological nuance. Some shared features of these phenomena, such as encounters and communications with supernatural entities, ... -
What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom
Bullock, Josh; Lane, Justin E.; Shults, F. LeRon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Understanding vaccine hesitancy has become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic as governments around the globe have been struggling to convince portions of their populations to participate in vaccination ... -
What do religion scholars really want? Scholarly values in the scientific study of religion
Shults, F. LeRon; Wildman, Wesley J.; Taves, Ann; Paloutzian, Raymond F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)