TY - GEN
T1 - A computational model of affective moral decision making that predicts human criminal choices
AU - Pontier, Matthijs A.
AU - van Gelder, Jean-Louis
AU - De Vries, Reinout E.
N1 - Conference code: 16
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In the present paper we show that a computational model of affective moral decision making can fit human behavior data obtained from an empirical study on criminal decision making. By applying parameter tuning techniques on data from an initial sample, optimal fits of the affective moral decision making model were found supporting the influences of honesty/humility, perceived risk and negative state affect on criminal choice. Using the parameter settings from the initial sample, we were able to predict criminal choices of participants in the holdout sample. The prediction errors of the full model were fairly low. Moreover, they compared favorably to the prediction errors produced by constrained variants of the model where either the moral, rational or affective influences or a combination of these had been removed.
AB - In the present paper we show that a computational model of affective moral decision making can fit human behavior data obtained from an empirical study on criminal decision making. By applying parameter tuning techniques on data from an initial sample, optimal fits of the affective moral decision making model were found supporting the influences of honesty/humility, perceived risk and negative state affect on criminal choice. Using the parameter settings from the initial sample, we were able to predict criminal choices of participants in the holdout sample. The prediction errors of the full model were fairly low. Moreover, they compared favorably to the prediction errors produced by constrained variants of the model where either the moral, rational or affective influences or a combination of these had been removed.
KW - Affective Decision Making
KW - Cognitive Modeling
KW - Criminal Decision Making
KW - Empirical Data
KW - Machine Ethics
KW - Mathematical Modeling
KW - Moral Reasoning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893080485&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-44927-7_40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893080485
SN - 9783642449260
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 502
EP - 509
BT - PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
A2 - Boella, Guido
A2 - Elkind, Edith
A2 - Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy
A2 - Dignum, Frank
A2 - Purvis, Martin K.
PB - Springer
T2 - 16th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2013
Y2 - 1 December 2013 through 6 December 2013
ER -