Is the Person-Situation Debate Important for Agent-Based Modeling and Vice-Versa?
The time evolution of a system of spinsons on a complete graph from an initial state of no adopted.
The number of time steps is 10,000, which corresponds to 100 Monte Carlo Steps (MCS). Blue dots denote 'adopted', white spaces denote 'not adopted'. In the person model (top panel) the red solid lines denote positions of independent spinsons. Note how the blue dots stay on the red lines – generally only the independent spinsons flip. This is very much unlike the dynamics of the situation model (bottom panel).