New fungus eater experiments [autonomous agents]

Although there seems to be a high agreement among researchers that the concept of autonomous agents should also be applied in psychology, especially in emotion psychology, most work has not yet exceed the theoretical level. One reason is the lack of adequate tools for applying and exploring this concept. This paper describes, on the basis of an implemented software package, what such a tool could look like. This simulation package has already been used for several applications. As an example we discuss an application that implements the basic concepts of the emotional (or social) fungus eater of Masanao Toda (1962).