Policy and Complex Systems
Table 2 . Motivation to comply selection interval
For each of the 9 experiments , we ran 30 replications and compared the results to our base case from scenario 1 . The box and whisker plots in Figure 7 show the average behavioral intent , with the boxes colored to indicate if the experiments are significantly different from the base case , where no influential figure is present . The blue plots indicate the experiments that are significantly higher than the base case and the red plots indicate the experiments that are significantly lower than the base case . The white plots indicate that there is no statistical difference between that experiment and the base case . The base case is shown in gray on the far right of the plot .
Our results indicate that an influential figure can increase behavioral intent even if some agents have a negative motivation to comply . Our results also indicate a lopsided relationship between having a positive effect and having a negative effect . That is , only when all agents connected to the influential figure had a large negative motivation to comply did the behavioral intent get worse . Otherwise , it either improved or was too similar to the base case to be conclusive . These results were confirmed by performing a paired t-test for each replication . The results of the tests are shown in Table 3 .
Figure 7 . Comparison of with base case .
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