Agent-based modeling explores the conceptual primitives of relationships, highlighting third-party inference implications.
The tripartite relationship model is unlikely to reflect how relationships are represented in the mind, given considerable difficulty in wresting clear conceptual distinctions from it. Instead, it offers a descriptive framework for organizing findings. Here, we present examples of conceptual difficulties of the model and elaborate on the functional importance of third-party inference based on our agent-based modeling work.
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