In social psychology, emotional contagion describes the widely observed phenomenon of one person’s emotions being influenced by surrounding people’s emotions. While the overall effect is agreed upon, the underlying mechanism of the spread of emotions has seen little quantification and application to computational agents despite extensive evidence of its impacts in everyday life. In this paper, ...

While contagion (information, infection, etc.) spreading has been extensively studied recently, the role of active local agents has not been fully considered. Here, we propose and study a model of spreading which takes into account the strength or quality of contagions as well as the local probabilistic dynamics occurring at various nodes. Transmission occurs only after the quality-based fitnes...

Abstract This article analyzes the visual operations of contagions and their material aftereffects. Data visualizations diagrams have played a key role in culture contagion, this explores especially two recurring themes: curves simulations. The addresses data that describe predict, advise control actions during pandemic. authors argue these simulations are also crucial epistemic aesthetic occur...

We propose a simultaneous equation system with GARCHX errors to model the contemporaneous relations among Asian and American stock markets. We thus evaluate the correlation matrix over rolling windows and introduce a correlation matrix distance which allows a simple graphical analysis of contagion. The empirical analysis on Asian and American stock markets shows some evidences of contagion.

Emotional contagion (EC) in games may provide players with an unique experience. We have developed a turn-based role playing prototype game which incorporates a model based on the EC process. While playing, users have the opportunity to observe the effects of emotional events on individual characters and on the group through simulated emotional contagion dynamics.

In social psychology, emotional contagion describes the widely observed phenomenon of one person’s emotions mimicking surrounding people’s emotions [13]. While it has been observed in humanhuman interactions, no known studies have examined its existence in agent-human interactions. As virtual characters make their way into high-risk, high-impact applications such as psychotherapy and military t...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper aims to examine the intra-industry effects of confirmation of a reorganization plan. Using unique Taiwanese data on announcements of reorganization confirmation, I find evidence that such announcements elicit positive stock price reactions for the announcing firms and negative stock price reactions for other firms within the same industry. Specifically, negative...

The 2008 Great Financial Crisis increased the fluctuations in the stock market in the US and other countries that were linked together through various channels. In this regard, derivative instruments, as one of the main elements of the world's financial markets, had an essential role in reducing the stock market fluctuations and contagion of the crisis. The primary purpose of this study is to e...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many people around the globe. Europe, as one of the most seriously affected continents, has been struggling with the novel coronavirus for several months. Obviously, outbreak response management plays a critical role in the impact of the disease. Therefore, in this paper, Malmquist Productivity Index is used to evaluate the performance of the most severely aff...

Social influence plays an important role in human behavior and decisions. The sources of influence can be generally divided into external, which are independent of social context, or as originating from peers, such as family and friends. An important question is how to disentangle the social contagion by peers from external influences. While a variety of experimental and observational studies p...