Leijnen, M.Sc. Stefan and Gabora, Dr. Liane (2010) An Agent-based Simulation of the Effectiveness of Creative Leadership. [Conference Paper] (In Press)
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Abstract
This paper investigates the effectiveness of creative versus uncreative leadership using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution. Each iteration, each agent in the artificial society invents a new action, or imitates a neighbor’s action. Only the leader’s actions can be imitated by all other agents, referred to as followers. Two measures of creativity were used: (1) invention-to-imitation ratio, iLeader, which measures how often an agent invents, and (2) rate of conceptual change, cLeader, which measures how creative an invention is. High iLeader increased mean fitness of ideas, but only when creativity of followers was low. High iLeader was associated with greater diversity of ideas in the early stage of idea generation only. High Leader increased mean fitness of ideas in the early stage of idea generation; in the later stage it decreased idea fitness. Reasons for these findings and tentative implications for creative leadership in human society are discussed.
Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | agent based modeling; broadcasting; creativity; culture; cultural evolution; imitation; leadership. |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Psychology > Social Psychology > Social simulation |
ID Code: | 6846 |
Deposited By: | Gabora, Dr. Liane |
Deposited On: | 21 May 2010 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2011 08:57 |
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