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

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-84

  Bosse, Tibor ^a   Hoogendoorn, Mark ^a   Klein, Michel C A ^a   Treur, Jan ^a   van der Wal, C Natalie ^a   van Wissen, Arlette ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Belief; Collective decision making; Computational modelling; Crowd behaviour; Emotion; Intention; Mirroring; Social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE; DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGY;

BELIEF; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CROWD BEHAVIOUR; EMOTION; INTENTION; MIRRORING; SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84873746402     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-012-9201-1     Document Type: Article

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