Emotions Praveen Paritosh CogSci 207 Fall 2004 Week 5 11 1 04 Ortony Clore and Collins 1988 OCC Valenced reaction to events agents or objects with their particular nature being determined by the way in which the eliciting situation is construed Questions What is the cognitive structure of emotional system as a whole What is the cognitive structure of individual emotions OCC Emotional System Events and their consequences goals Agents and their actions standards Desirability pleased displeased Praiseworthiness approving disapproving Objects pure and simple attitudes Appealingness liking disliking Aspects of world that give rise to emotions Criteria for evaluation appraisals OCC Individual Emotions Eliciting conditions for each emotions Situational descriptions Variables that effect the intensity of emotion Desirability Praiseworthiness Appealingness OCC 1988 taxonomy of emotion types Norman Ortony Russell NOR 2003 Cognition Making sense of the world Interpret reflect remember Affect Evaluations judgments Modulation of operating parameters of cognition Warnings alarms about dangers NOR 2003 levels of processing behavior More Emotions research Antonio Damasio neuroscience Believable agents interactive narrative CMU OZ Affective computing Roz Pickard So what do you think Issues brought up in critiques Why affect and not just program it right OCC and reductionism to fewer dimensions scales Affect might make machines worse Schacter Singer study DMAP to model emotions Gender Do we want machines to be emotional Machine emotions vs human emotions Emotions work when cognition fails