F. LeRon Shults
Research Professor
lesh@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 76 62
Universitetsveien 19, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway
Division
Health & Social Sciences
Research themes
Computer Modeling and Social Simulation
Research Groups
Center for Modeling Social Systems
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Projects
Publications
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Academic articleSustainable Altruism: Simulating the Future of Prosociality and Peacebuilding—A Conceptual Review– Journal of Sustainability Research (JSR) 2025
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Academic articleSimulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory– Theory and society 2025
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Research reportFrom Product to Market Co-Creation: methodological guidelines– INNOAQUA Project 2025
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Academic articleFrom Suffering to Salvation: Making Sense of Religious Experiences– The international journal for the psychology of religion 2024
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Academic literature reviewThe trajectory of psychedelic, spiritual, and psychotic experiences: implications for cognitive scientific perspectives on religion– Religion, Brain and Behavior 2024
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Academic articleQuantifying the Psychological Online Communities Considering the Relationship between COVID-19-Related Threat, Information Uncertainty, and Risk Perception– Natural Hazards Review 2024
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Academic articleDataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys– Religion, Brain and Behavior 2024
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Academic articleThe role of emotion and social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic phase transitions: a cross-cultural comparison of China and the United States– Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2024
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Academic articleThe Role of Values in Pandemic Management: An Agent-Based Model– JASSS : Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 2024
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Academic chapterAn Agent-Based Model of the Role of Epistemic Vigilance in Human Cooperation– 2023
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Academic chapterAn Agent-Based Model of Prosocial Equilibrium: The Role of Religiously Motivated Behaviour in the Formation and Maintenance of Large-Scale Societies– 2023
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Academic chapterA Cognitive Model of Epistemic Vigilance in Situations of Varying Competence, Consistency, and Utility– 2023
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Conference lectureSuperstition in the cognitive model: Modelling ritualised behaviour as error management– Social Simulation Conference 2023
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Conference lectureThe rise and fall of religion: A model-based exploration of secularisation, security, and prosociality– Social Simulation Conference 2023
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Academic articleModern religion as vestigial structure: an evolutionary account of secularisation– Religion 2023
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Academic articleReligion devolving? When shared ritual engagement with supernatural agents becomes maladaptive– Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 2023
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Academic articleThe methodological naturalism and methodological secularism scale: Shedding new light on scholarship in religion– Bulletin for the Study of Religion 2023
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Academic articleThe Norwegian Memory Tasks: Using Pensioner Auto-Biographies to Study Religion in a Secularizing Country– Review of religious research 2023
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Academic chapterHUM-e: An Emotive-Socio-cognitive Agent Architecture for Representing Human Decision-Making in Anxiogenic Contexts– 2023
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Academic articleComputational Decision Support for Socio-Technical Awareness of Land-Use Planning under Complexity—A Dam Resilience Planning Case Study– Land 2023
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Academic articleParamilitaries, parochialism, and peace: The moral foundations and personality traits of SlovenskíBranci– PLOS ONE 2023
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Academic articleModeling nationalism, religiosity, and threat perception: During the COVID-19 pandemic– PLOS ONE 2023
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Academic articleSimulation, Science, and Stakeholders: Challenges and Opportunities for Modelling Solutions to Societal Problems– Complexity 2023
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Academic articleThe Moral Foundations of Left-Wing Authoritarianism: On the Character, Cohesion, and Clout of Tribal Equalitarian Discourse– Journal of Cognition and Culture 2023
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Academic chapterField of Dreams: What do NAASR Scholars Really Want– 2022
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Conference lectureModeling error management theory– Annual meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion 2022
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Conference lectureA cognitive model of epistemic vigilance– Annual meeting of the European Social Simulation Association 2022
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Conference lectureAn agent-based model of the role of epistemic vigilance in human cooperation– Annual meeting of the European Social Simulation Association 2022
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Conference lectureAn emotive-socio cognitive agent architecture for representing human decision-making in anxiogenic contexts– Annual meeting of the European Social Simulation Association 2022
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Conference lectureModeling Fuzzy Fidelity Theory– Annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Religions 2022
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Conference lectureAtheisms, atheologies, naturalistic theologies, and religious naturalisms– Annual meeting of the Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought 2022
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Conference lectureMinding Culture– Religion, Ideology, and Prosociality Conference 2022
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Academic chapterGeneration gaps: An agent-based model of opinion shifts among cohorts– 2022
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Academic articleTheory and data in a computational model of secularization– Bulletin for the Study of Religion 2022
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Academic articleArtificial Societies in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities for Modeling Climate, Conflict, and Coooperation– Winter simulation conference : proceedings 2022
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Academic chapterThe Model(ing) Philosophy of Wesley Wildman– 2022
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Academic articlePanel of Ethical Constraints on Validation, Verification, and Application of Simulation– Winter simulation conference : proceedings 2022
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Academic chapterDocumenting Data Use in a Model of Pandemic “Emotional Contagion” Using the Rigour and Transparency Reporting Standard (RAT-RS)– 2022
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Academic chapterIntroduction to the Work of Wesley J. Wildman– 2022
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Academic articlePaying the piper: History, humanities, and the scientific study of religion– Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 2022
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Academic articleScholarly values, methods, and evidence in the academic study of religion– Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 2022
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Academic chapterThe Computational Science of Religion– 2022
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Academic articleStudying close entity encounters of the psychedelic kind: Insights from the cognitive evolutionary science of religion– The international journal for the psychology of religion 2022
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Academic chapterThe Problem with Bullying: Lessons Learned from Modelling Marginalization with Diverse Stakeholders– 2022
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Academic articleModeling Fuzzy Fidelity: Using Microsimulation to Explore Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Secularization– Journal of Religion and Demography 2022
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Academic literature reviewAdapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation: A case study– Social science computer review 2022
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Academic articleWhat causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom– Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2022
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Non-fiction chapterAdvanced computational approaches– 2021
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Academic chapterInCREDulity in artificial societies– 2021
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Academic chapterComputational Demography of Religion: A Proposal– 2021
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Conference lectureArtificial societies in the Anthropocene: Challenges and opportunities for modeling climate, conflict, and cooperation– Winter Simulation Conference 2021
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Conference lectureEthical constraints on validation, verification, and application of simulation– Winter Simulation Conference 2021
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Conference lectureClose entity encounters of the psychedelic kind: Insights and inspiration from the evolutionary psychology of religion– Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion 2021
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Conference lectureComputer modeling of (non)religion: Pragmatic implications– Scientific Study of Religion Conference 2021
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Conference lectureTheory integration in social simulation– Religion, Ideology and Prosociality Seminar 2021
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Conference lectureQualitative methods and data in social simulation– Qual2Rule Seminar 2021
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Conference lectureFlattening the Emotional Curve with New AI systems: Computer Simulation as a Tool for Policymakers and Stakeholders in Times of Crisis– AnyLogic Conference 2021 2021
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Conference lectureDocumenting data use in a model of pandemic 'emotional contagion' using the Rigour and Transparency Reporting Standard (RAT-RS)– 2021 Social Simulation Conference 2021
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Conference lectureYoung liberals? An agent-based model of opinion shifts among cohorts– 2021 Social Simulation Conference 2021
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Conference lectureCommentary on Hogue's Political Theology– Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought 2021
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Conference lectureUsing multi-agent AI to predict and prevent religious conflict– Artificial Intelligence and Religion 2021
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Academic chapterComputational demography of religion: A proposal– 2021
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Academic articleModeling the effects of religious belief and affiliation on prosociality– Secularism and Nonreligion 2021
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Academic articleSimulating secularities: Challenges and opportunities in the computational science of (non)religion– Secularism and Nonreligion 2021
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Academic articleReligious exiting and social networks: Computer simulations of religious/secular pluralism– Secularism and Nonreligion 2021
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Academic articleDistributive effervescence: Emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies– Theory and society 2021
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Academic articleProgress in simulating human geography: Assemblage theory and the practice of multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling– Progress in Human Geography 2021
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Academic chapterModeling reconciliation and peace processes: Lessons from Syrian war refugees and World War II– 2021
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Academic articleModeling marginalization: Emergence, social physics, and social ethics of bullying– Simulation Series 2020
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Academic articleArtificial social ethics: Simulating culture, conflict, and cooperation– Simulation Series 2020
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Academic articleEvolutionary ethics and adaptive atheism– Religion, Brain and Behavior 2020
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Academic chapterModeling Marginalization: Emergence, Social Physics, and Social Ethics of Bullying– 2020
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Academic articleBEST FRIENDS FOREVER? MODELING THE MECHANISMS OF FRIENDSHIP NETWORK FORMATION– Winter simulation conference : proceedings 2020
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Conference lectureIntroducing the EmotiCon Project– Science Europe/ NSFC conference on COVID-19 2020
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Conference lectureWhat do we, as scholars of religion, value?– American Academy of Religion 2020
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Conference lectureData and Theory in a Computational Model of Secularization– North American Association for the Study of Religion 2020
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Conference lectureIntroduction to Modeling Secularization– Religion, Ideology, and Prosociality Launch Conference 2020
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Conference lectureIntroduction to Modeling Prosociality– Religion, Ideology, and Prosociality Launch Conference 2020
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Conference lectureSimulating Assemblages and Fields– Modeling Assemblages and Strategic Action Fields 2020
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Conference lectureEmotional Contagion: The Spread of Misinformation, Stigma, and Fear during a Pandemic– Social Simulation Conference 2020
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Conference lectureArtificial Social Ethics– Spring Simulation Conference 2020
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Conference lectureModeling Marginalization: The emergence, social physics, and social ethics of bullying– Spring Simulation Conference 2020
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Conference lectureMorality and Causality in Artificial Societies– Artificial Morality and Causality 2020
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Academic articleHuman Simulation and Sustainability: Ontological, Epistemological, and Ethical Reflections– Sustainability 2020
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Academic articleModelling threat causation for religiosity and nationalism in Europe– arXiv.org 2020
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Academic articleAgent-based modelling of values: The case of value sensitive design for refugee logistics– JASSS : Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 2020
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Academic articleThe Computational Science of Religion– Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 2020
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Academic chapterArtificial Social Ethics: Simulating Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation– 2020
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Academic articleSimulating Machines: Modelling, Metaphysics and the Mechanosphere– Deleuze and Guattari studies 2020
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Academic articleToxic theisms? New strategies for prebunking religious belief-behaviour complexes– Journal of Cognitive Historiography 2020
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Academic articleWhat Do Religion Scholars Really Want? Scholarly Values in the Scientific Study of Religion– Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2020
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Academic chapterComputing consilience: How modeling and simulation can contribute to worldview studies– 2020
