Paper Info
Title
Computational models of the emotions: from models of the emotions of the individual to modelling the emerging irrational behaviour of crowds
Abstract
Computational models of emotions have been thriving and increasingly popular since the 1990s. Such models used to be concerned with the emotions of individual agents when they interact with other agents. Out of the array of models for the emotions, we are going to devote special attention to the approach in Adamatzky’s Dynamics of Crowd-Minds. The reason it stands out, is that it considers the crowd, rather than the individual agent. It fits in computational intelligence. It works by mathematical simulation on a crowd of simple artificial agents: by letting the computer program run, the agents evolve, and crowd behaviour emerges. Adamatzky’s purpose is to give an account of the emergence of allegedly “irrational” behaviour. This is not without problem, as the irrational to one person may seem entirely rational to another, and this in turn is an insight that, in the history of crowd psychology, has affected indeed the competition among theories of crowd dynamics. Quite importantly, Adamatzky’s book argues for the transition from individual agencies to a crowd’s or a mob’s coalesced mind as so, and at any rate for coalesced crowd’s agency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/s00146-009-0210-9
AI Soc.
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational intelligence,crowd psychology,irrational behaviour,coalesced mind,computer program run,crowd behaviour,computational model,individual agency,coalesced crowd,individual agent,crowd dynamic,computer model
Social psychology,Emotional contagion,Crowds,Computational intelligence,Computer science,Cognitive science,Irrational number,Computational model,Crowd simulation,Thriving,Management science,Crowd psychology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
4
1435-5655
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.37
19
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ephraim Nissan116421.59