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 evaluate whether to comply or violate a norm. Specifically, before selecting an action to execute, an agent observes the environment and infer 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) promote norm compliance; and (2) improve societal welfare.
翻译:此外,一些社会规范是人类社会集体和可接受的群体行为的特点。一些社会规范产生于代理人或人的相互作用。为了实现代理人自治并使规范满意度得到解释,我们把情感纳入规范推理过程,以评价是否遵守或违反规范。具体地说,在选择执行行动之前,代理人观察环境,在标准满足或违反社会规范之后,推断其内部状态的状态和后果。规范满足和违反行为引起进一步的情感,随后的情感影响规范的执行。本文件通过社会模拟试验,调查模拟情感如何影响社会规范的出现和健全性。我们发现,代理人有能力考虑对规范满足和违反结果的情感反应(1) 推动规范的遵守;(2) 改善社会福利。