Trait Emotional Intelligence: Modelling Individual Emotional Differences in Agent-Based Models

. The construct of emotional intelligence (EI) is strictly related to the individual experience of emotions. The aim of the Ph.D. project is the development of agent-based models able to take into account the individual differences related to the management of the emotional experiences and affecting decision-making process-es (especially in order to recreate the social mechanisms studied by social and or-ganizational psychology). We believe that the implementation of trait emotional intelligence inside agents endowed with beliefs, desires and intentions (i.e. BDI agents) can improve the capability of agent-based models to reproduce individual differences related with the emotional sphere. We propose to implement the con-cept of trait EI associating it with the agents' decision-making processes in order to improve the complexity related to the individual differences: that is to say, modelling individual emotional differences.