Modelling collective decision making in groups and crowds: Integrating social contagion and interacting emotions, beliefs and intentions

• DOI: 10.1007/s10458-012-9201-1
• Publication Date: 2012-06-20T03:09:36Z
• Authors: Tibor Bosse; Mark Hoogendoorn; Michel C. A. Klein; Jan Treur; C. Natalie van de...; Arlette van Wissen
• Keywords: Emotional contagion

Collective decision making involves on the one hand individual mental states such as beliefs, emotions and intentions, other interaction with others possibly different states. Achieving a satisfactory common group which all agree requires that are adapted to each by social interaction. Recent developments in neuroscience have revealed neural mechanisms mutual adaptation can be realised. These not only enable intentions converge an emerging decision, but at same time achieve shared underlying beliefs emotions. This paper presents computational model for processes. As application of model, agent-based analysis was made patterns crowd behaviour, particular simulate real-life incident took place May 4, 2010 Amsterdam. From available video material witness reports, useful empirical data were extracted. Similar achieved simulations, whereby some parameters tuned case addressed, most assigned default values. The results show inclusion contagion belief, emotion, intention agents better reproduction than non-inclusion.