An emotional contagion based simulation for emergency evacuation peer behavior decision

Simulating emergency evacuation plays an important role in social security. Most of the existing systems focus on modeling single type of crowd movements, while ignoring the impact of psychological factors on the population. This paper proposes an emotional contagion-based model to simulate the peer decision-making in emergency evacuation. Firstly, the peer behaviors are simulated by integrating emotion contagion and intimacy-based...