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Emotions shape human behaviors particularly during stressful situations. This paper addresses this challenging issue by incorporating coping mechanisms into an emotional agent. Indeed, coping refers to cognitive and behavioral efforts employed by humans to overcome stressful situations. In our proposal, we intend to show the potential of the integration of coping strategies to produce fast and human-like behavioral responses in emergency situations. Particularly, we propose a coping model that reveals the effect of agent emotions on their action selection processes.
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Belhaj, M., Kebair, F., Ben Said, L. (2016). Modeling and Simulation of Coping Mechanisms and Emotional Behavior During Emergency Situations. In: Jezic, G., Chen-Burger, YH., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technology and Applications. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 58. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39883-9_13
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