Abstract:

Internalization is at study in social-behavioural sciences and moral philosophy since long; of late, the debate was
revamped within the rationality approach to the study of cooperation and compliance since internalization is a less costly and more
reliable enforcement system than social control. But how does it work? So far, poor attention was paid to themental underpinnings
of internalization. This paper advocates a rich cognitive model of different types, degrees and factors of internalization. In order
to check the individual and social effect of internalization, we have adapted an existing agent architecture, EMIL-A, providing
it with internalization capabilities, turning it into EMIL-I-A. Experiments have proven satisfactory results with respect to the
maintenance of cooperation in a proof-of-concept simulation.

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