What is an emotion?
An Emotion is NOT: a feeling (subjective (you are the only one who is feeling it)
representation of an emotion), an affect (a broader umbrella of emotions, moods and feelings),
a mood (consistent feeling)
Emotion – moods
Emotions bias action, prepare for immediate response.
Moods tent to bias cognitive strategies and processing over a longer term
Emotion:
Generally agreed-upon aspects of emotion:
Emotion is a reaction to events deemed relevant to the needs, goals or concerns of an
individual
Emotion encompasses physiological, affective, behavioural, and cognitive components
o To measure emotion, would be best to measure all four. Most of the time we do only 1
of them
Emotions have a quick onset and short duration
Components of emotion
Expression
Action tendency
o To be prepared to act in a certain manner – specific to a given emotion
o Fight, flight, freeze response
Bodily reactions
Feeling
How is an emotion caught?
Outside – in, James Lange
o Show the physical characteristics, then you feel the anger yourself
o Stimulus Sensory perception General autonomic arousal Emotion
experienced
Inside – out, Cannon-Bard
o Feel the anger then you show the characteristics
o Stimulus Sensory perception General autonomic arousal + Emotion experienced
Cognitive theory – Schachter
o Stimulus Sensory perception General autonomic arousal Cognitive
appraisals Emotion experienced
Primacy debate
What comes first, cognition or emotion
There is a low road and a high road for the road from the sensory thalamus to the amygdala.
Low road: Emotional stimulus sensory thalamus amygdala emotional response
There is no time to question everything in the sensory cortex, so it is not possible
,High road: Emotional stimulus sensory thalamus sensory cortex amygdala emotional
response
You don’t have to ask al the questions one after each other, it will be all in the same time so
you’re body reacts immediately
Middle road: They happen at the same time
Functions of emotions
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2: memory
Emotional stimuli are remembered better than unemotional events;
o Memory is changed by your thoughts
People remember mood-congruent emotion stimuli better than incongruent stimuli;
o Happy things happen when you are feeling sad are less remembered than when
something bad happens
Mood-dependent recall: memories encoded while in a particular mood are better recalled
when in that same mood
Emotion theories:
Categorical (i.e. basic emotions) theories
o Anger, fear, happiness, disgust, sadness
o Complex emotions are a combination of basic emotions
Dimensional theories
o Complex emotions are a combination of access arousal – valance (positive / negative
or pleasure / displeasure)
o Anger: lots of arousal (negative)
o Sadness: Not a lot of arousal (negative)
o Happiness: a lot of arousal (positive)
Appraisal theories
o Cognitive appraisal
Constructed emotion theories
Validity vs. reliability (validiteit en betrouwbaarheid)
Ecological validity: a measure of how test performance predicts behaviours in real world settings
, Hoorcollege 2 – Affective computing
Historical roots of affective computing
Affective computing: To ‘give computers the ability to recognize, express and in some cases ‘have’
emotions’ (computers recognizing our emotions)
Bijvoorbeeld kijken naar iemands gezichtsuitdrukking om te kijken of iemand iets leuk/lekker
vindt
Levels of affective computing
Computers can express affect or recognize effect or both
Early A.I. and current A.I. are different. Early AI wanted to recreate humans, current AI break
down production costs
You can fully replicate a human brain with a device. Questions tight to it: Can we become immortal,
Does the computer have consciousness
Varum factum principle
Truth is verified via …
You must replicate a brain to understand it?
The computer is now a metaphor of the brain, earlier this was hydraulics, mechanics, electrics
The turing test? – hume.ai
Theories of personality
Big 5 model
Eysenck’s three factor model
Eysenck's biological theory: suggest that extraverts are less cortically than ..
Typical modalities
Language
Non verbal cues
o Facial expressions
o Paralinguistic cues
o Body posture
o Hand gestures
o …
Pipeline of affective computing
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