Ivan Puga‐Gonzalez
Biographic Data
| ID | 6543079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Puga‐Gonzalez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Puga‐Gonzalez |
| SIGNATURE | GONZALEZ I P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Agder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2510-6760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A bite too much
Plate waste at hotel breakfast buffets contributes substantially to food waste, yet interactions between guest characteristics, portioning decisions, and behavioural interventions remain understudied. This study conducts scenario analysis using the validated Establishment Diner agent-based model, simulating plate waste across 36 scenarios varying plate size, clientele structure, guest sustainability awareness, and buffet communication messages. T…
To eat or not to Eat
Food loss and waste are increasingly recognized as the outcomes of complex, interconnected social and environmental dynamics rather than isolated individual choices. In this study, we adopt a complex systems approach to explore how micro-level behaviors and interactions within commercial dining settings give rise to emergent patterns of food waste. We present an agent-based model that integrates a psychologically realistic representation of indiv…
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys
This article presents the Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R), explains how it was constructed, and outlines its potential for helping to address long-standing research questions in the social scientific study of religion. DIM-R integrates four variables often used to measure religious commitment: self-declared religiosity, religious attendance, prayer, and affiliation/denominational affiliation. These variables are harmonized in f…
Adapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation
Social scientists generally take United Nations (UN) population projections as the baseline when considering the potential impact of any changes that could affect fertility, mortality or migration, and the UN typically does projections using the cohort-component method (CCM). The CCM technique is computationally simple and familiar to demographers. However, in order to avoid the exponential expansion of complexity as new dimensions of individual …
The consistency of individual centrality across time and networks in wild vervet monkeys
Previous primate social network studies largely limited their focus to grooming and/or aggression networks, particularly among adult females. In addition, the consistency of individuals' network centrality across time and/or different networks has received little attention, despite this being critical for a global understanding of dynamic social structure. Here, we analyzed the grooming, aggression, and play social networks of a group of 26–28 wi…
Religious Exiting and Social Networks
Statistical models attempting to predict who will disaffiliate from religions have typically accounted for less than 15% of the variation in religious affiliations, suggesting that we have only a partial understanding of this vital social process. Using agent-based simulations in three “artificial societies” (one predominantly religious; one predominantly secular; and one in between), we demonstrate that worldview pluralism within one’s neighborh…
Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia
We used the three latest rounds of the religion module of International Social Survey Programme to study secularization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on belief in God. We restricted our sample to the affiliated with the majority Protestant churches and the unaffiliated and analyzed the trends toward disaffiliation and disbelief in God. Then, we studied the association between confidence in churches, religious/secular upbringing, and de…
The effects of data collection and observation methods on uncertainty of social networks in wild primates
In social species, network centralities of group members shape social transmission and other social phenomena. Different factors have been found to influence the measurement of social networks, such as data collection and observation methods. In this study, we collected data on adults and juveniles and examined the effect of data collection method (ad libitum sampling vs. focal animal sampling) and observation method (interaction—grooming; play—v…
Social style and resilience of macaques’ networks, a theoretical investigation
Mechanisms of network evolution
Friendships and Social Networks in an Individual-Based Model of Primate Social Behaviour
The individual-based model GrooFiWorld proposes a parsimonious theory explaining the complex behaviour of macaque societies. It suggests that the socio-spatial structure of the group underlies the emergence of complex behaviour. A spatial structure with dominants at the center and subordinates at the periphery emerges due to aggression. This structure influences the distribution of social interactions: individuals interact more with close-by part…
“Targeting or supporting, what drives patterns of aggressive intervention in fights?”
GrooFiWorld is an individual-based, computational model of social interactions that can be used to examine factors underlying reciprocation and interchange of social behavior in primate societies. Individuals within GrooFiWorld are programed to maintain spatial proximity and thereby form a group. When an individual encounters another individual in its proximity, the individual attacks the other if the risk of losing is low. Otherwise, the individ…
Cooperation, Coalition, Alliances
Cooperation, Coalition, and Alliances
Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia
We used the three latest rounds of the religion module of International Social Survey Programme to study secularization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on belief in God. We restricted our sample to the affiliated with the majority Protestant churches and the unaffiliated and analyzed the trends toward disaffiliation and disbelief in God. Then, we studied the association between confidence in churches, religious/secular upbringing, and de…
Cooperation, Coalition, and Alliances
Cooperation, Coalition, Alliances
“Targeting or supporting, what drives patterns of aggressive intervention in fights?”
GrooFiWorld is an individual-based, computational model of social interactions that can be used to examine factors underlying reciprocation and interchange of social behavior in primate societies. Individuals within GrooFiWorld are programed to maintain spatial proximity and thereby form a group. When an individual encounters another individual in its proximity, the individual attacks the other if the risk of losing is low. Otherwise, the individ…
Friendships and Social Networks in an Individual-Based Model of Primate Social Behaviour
The individual-based model GrooFiWorld proposes a parsimonious theory explaining the complex behaviour of macaque societies. It suggests that the socio-spatial structure of the group underlies the emergence of complex behaviour. A spatial structure with dominants at the center and subordinates at the periphery emerges due to aggression. This structure influences the distribution of social interactions: individuals interact more with close-by part…
Social style and resilience of macaques’ networks, a theoretical investigation
Mechanisms of network evolution
The effects of data collection and observation methods on uncertainty of social networks in wild primates
In social species, network centralities of group members shape social transmission and other social phenomena. Different factors have been found to influence the measurement of social networks, such as data collection and observation methods. In this study, we collected data on adults and juveniles and examined the effect of data collection method (ad libitum sampling vs. focal animal sampling) and observation method (interaction—grooming; play—v…
The consistency of individual centrality across time and networks in wild vervet monkeys
Previous primate social network studies largely limited their focus to grooming and/or aggression networks, particularly among adult females. In addition, the consistency of individuals' network centrality across time and/or different networks has received little attention, despite this being critical for a global understanding of dynamic social structure. Here, we analyzed the grooming, aggression, and play social networks of a group of 26–28 wi…
Religious Exiting and Social Networks
Statistical models attempting to predict who will disaffiliate from religions have typically accounted for less than 15% of the variation in religious affiliations, suggesting that we have only a partial understanding of this vital social process. Using agent-based simulations in three “artificial societies” (one predominantly religious; one predominantly secular; and one in between), we demonstrate that worldview pluralism within one’s neighborh…
Belief in God, Confidence in the Church and Secularization in Scandinavia
We used the three latest rounds of the religion module of International Social Survey Programme to study secularization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, focusing on belief in God. We restricted our sample to the affiliated with the majority Protestant churches and the unaffiliated and analyzed the trends toward disaffiliation and disbelief in God. Then, we studied the association between confidence in churches, religious/secular upbringing, and de…
Adapting Cohort-Component Methods to a Microsimulation
Social scientists generally take United Nations (UN) population projections as the baseline when considering the potential impact of any changes that could affect fertility, mortality or migration, and the UN typically does projections using the cohort-component method (CCM). The CCM technique is computationally simple and familiar to demographers. However, in order to avoid the exponential expansion of complexity as new dimensions of individual …
To eat or not to Eat
Food loss and waste are increasingly recognized as the outcomes of complex, interconnected social and environmental dynamics rather than isolated individual choices. In this study, we adopt a complex systems approach to explore how micro-level behaviors and interactions within commercial dining settings give rise to emergent patterns of food waste. We present an agent-based model that integrates a psychologically realistic representation of indiv…
Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R). Harmonization of religiosity data from selected international multiwave surveys
This article presents the Dataset of Integrated Measures of Religion (DIM-R), explains how it was constructed, and outlines its potential for helping to address long-standing research questions in the social scientific study of religion. DIM-R integrates four variables often used to measure religious commitment: self-declared religiosity, religious attendance, prayer, and affiliation/denominational affiliation. These variables are harmonized in f…
A bite too much
Plate waste at hotel breakfast buffets contributes substantially to food waste, yet interactions between guest characteristics, portioning decisions, and behavioural interventions remain understudied. This study conducts scenario analysis using the validated Establishment Diner agent-based model, simulating plate waste across 36 scenarios varying plate size, clientele structure, guest sustainability awareness, and buffet communication messages. T…
Primate Behavior and Ecology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 works) · Animal Behavior and Reproduction (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Dominance (genetics) (3 works)