Abstract
Social norms characterize collective and acceptable group conducts in human society. Furthermore, some social norms emerge from interactions of agents or humans. To achieve agent autonomy and make norm satisfaction explainable, we include emotions into the normative reasoning process, which evaluates whether to comply or violate a norm. Specifically, before selecting an action to execute, an agent observes the environment and infers the state and consequences with its internal states after norm satisfaction or violation of a social norm. Both norm satisfaction and violation provoke further emotions, and the subsequent emotions affect norm enforcement. This paper investigates how modeling emotions affect the emergence and robustness of social norms via social simulation experiments. We find that an ability in agents to consider emotional responses to the outcomes of norm satisfaction and violation (1) promotes norm compliance; and (2) improves societal welfare.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XIV - International Workshop, COINE 2021, Revised Selected Papers |
Editors | Andreas Theodorou, Juan Carlos Nieves, Marina De Vos |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Pages | 62-77 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031166167 |
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Publication status | Published - 22 Oct 2022 |
Event | International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2021, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 3 May 2021 → 3 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 | 13239 LNAI |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2021, Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021 |
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City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 3/05/21 → 3/05/21 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:STT and MPS thank the NSF for partial support under grant IIS-1908374.
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