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On the Same Wavelengths: Emergence of Multiple Synchronies Among Multiple Agents

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Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXII (MABS 2021)

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People spontaneously synchronize their mental states and behavioral actions when they interact. This paper models general mechanisms that can lead to the emergence of interpersonal synchrony by multiple agents with internal cognitive and affective states. In our simulations, one agent was exposed to a repeated stimulus and the other agent started to synchronize consecutively its movements, affects, conscious emotions and verbal actions with the exposed agent. The behavior displayed by the agents was consistent with theory and empirical evidence from the psychological and neuroscience literature. These results shed new light on the emergence of interpersonal synchrony in a wide variety of settings, from close relationships to psychotherapy. Moreover, the present work could provide a basis for future development of socially responsive virtual agents.

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  1. Amsterdam Emotion Regulation Lab, Department of Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Sophie C. F. Hendrikse, Tom F. Wilderjans, Suzanne Dikker & Sander L. Koole

  2. Methodology and Statistics Research Unit, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Sophie C. F. Hendrikse & Tom F. Wilderjans

  3. Social AI Group, Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan Treur

  4. Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Tom F. Wilderjans

  5. NYU – Max Planck Center for Language, Music and Emotion, New York University, New York, USA

    Suzanne Dikker

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Hendrikse, S.C.F., Treur, J., Wilderjans, T.F., Dikker, S., Koole, S.L. (2022). On the Same Wavelengths: Emergence of Multiple Synchronies Among Multiple Agents. In: Van Dam, K.H., Verstaevel, N. (eds) Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXII. MABS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94548-0_5

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