Impact of different belief facets on agents' decision -- a refined
  cognitive architecture to model the interaction between organisations'
  institutional characteristics and agents' behaviour
  This paper presents a conceptual refinement of agent cognitive architecture
inspired from the beliefs-desires-intentions (BDI) and the theory of planned
behaviour (TPB) models, with an emphasis on different belief facets. This
enables us to investigate the impact of personality and the way that an agent
weights its internal beliefs and social sanctions on an agent's actions. The
study also uses the concept of cognitive dissonance associated with the
fairness of institutions to investigate the agents' behaviour. To showcase our
model, we simulate two historical long-distance trading societies, namely
Armenian merchants of New-Julfa and the English East India Company. The results
demonstrate the importance of internal beliefs of agents as a pivotal aspect
for following institutional rules.
