Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XXII |
Subtitle of host publication | 22nd International Workshop, MABS 2021, Virtual Event, May 3-7, 2021, Revised Selected Papers |
Editors | Koen H. Van Dam, Nicolas Verstaevel |
Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
Pages | 57-71 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030945480 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030945473 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 22nd International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 3 May 2021 → 7 May 2021 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 13128 LNAI |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 22nd International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2021 |
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City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 3/05/21 → 7/05/21 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords
- Emergent synchrony patterns
- In-Sync model
- Social agent model
- Social simulations