Friend or foe: a review and synthesis of computational models of the identity labeling problem

DOI10.1080/0022250X.2021.1923016zbMATH Open1492.91238arXiv2105.04462OpenAlexW3165161961MaRDI QIDQ5093079FDOQ5093079

Authors: Kenneth Joseph, Jonathan Howard Morgan 

Publication date: 26 July 2022

Published in: The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce the identity labeling problem - given an individual in a social situation, can we predict what identity(ies) they will be labeled with by someone else? This problem remains a theoretical gap and methodological challenge, evidenced by the fact that models of social-cognition often sidestep the issue by treating identities as already known. We build on insights from existing models to develop a new framework, entitled Latent Cognitive Social Spaces, that can incorporate multiple social cues including sentiment information, socio-demographic characteristics, and institutional associations to estimate the most culturally expected identity. We apply our model to data collected in two vignette experiments, finding that it predicts identity labeling choices of participants with a mean absolute error of 10.9%, a 100% improvement over previous models based on parallel constraint satisfaction and affect control theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04462

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zbMATH Keywords

computational social sciencesocial identitysocial psychologyanalytical sociology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurement theory in the social and behavioral sciences (91C05)

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• Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis
• Affect control processes: intelligent affective interaction using a partially observable Markov decision process
• Affect control theory: Concepts and model

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