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Modelling Joint Decision Making Processes Involving Emotion-Related Valuing and Empathic Understanding

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Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice (PRIMA 2011)

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In this paper a social agent model for joint decision making is presented addressing the role of mutually acknowledged empathic understanding in the decision making. The model is based on principles from recent neurological theories on mirror neurons, internal simulation, and emotion-related valuing. Emotion-related valuing of decision options and mutual contagion of intentions and emotions between agents are used as a basis for mutual empathic understanding and convergence of decisions and their associated emotions.

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  1. Agent Systems Research Group, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan Treur

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  1. Department of Social Informatics, Engineering, Kyoto University, Building 10, 6006-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    David Kinny

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1 Roosevelt Road, 106, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jane Yung-jen Hsu

  3. Queensland Research Lab, NICTA, Australia

    Guido Governatori

  4. Decision Systems Lab School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, 2522, NSW, Australia

    Aditya K. Ghose

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Treur, J. (2011). Modelling Joint Decision Making Processes Involving Emotion-Related Valuing and Empathic Understanding. In: Kinny, D., Hsu, J.Yj., Governatori, G., Ghose, A.K. (eds) Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice. PRIMA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25044-6_33

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