Mao, W., Gratch, J.
Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(NY City, July, 2004)
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Social judgment is a process of social explanation whereby one evaluates which entities deserve credit or blame for multiagent activities. Such explanations are a key aspect of inference in a social environment and a model of this process can advance several design compo-nents of multi-agent systems. Social judgment underlies social planning, social learning, natural language prag-matics and computational model of emotion. Based on psychological attribution theory, this paper presents a computational approach to forming social judgment based on an agent’s causal knowledge and communica-tive interactions with other agents.
