Board #14 - Beyond Utilitarian Optimization: A Prescriptive, Agent-Based Design for Repairing KPI-Induced Trust Decay; How the incorporation of Cognitive Substrates Inform Oversight Regimes that Sustain Cooperation, Policy Legitimacy, and Democratic Resilience.

• In Event: 72-306 - Poster Session: Electoral Institutions and Democratic Resilience

Brief Overview

We encode cognitive substrates (trust heuristics, threat sensitivity, loss aversion) in a calibrated agent-based model and run KPI-density policy shocks. Emergent behavioral development provides insights into trust/cooperation sustenance/collapse.

Author

• Felix Tinio, Stevens Institute of Technology