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Joint Decision Making Processes Involving Emotion-Related Valuing and Mutual Empathic Understanding

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In this chapter, based on a Network-Oriented Modeling approach a temporal-causal network model for joint decision making is presented addressing the role of mutually acknowledge empathic understanding in the decision making. The model is based on principles from recent neurological theories on mirror neurons, internal simulation, and emotion-related valuing. Emotion-related valuing of decision options and mutual contagion of intentions and emotions between persons are used as a basis for mutual empathic understanding and convergence of decisions and their associated emotions.

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Treur, J. (2016). Are You with Me? Am I with You?. In: Network-Oriented Modeling. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45213-5_10

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