Emotion Components and Social Relations

The Components of Emotion

Motivation and emotion are closely connected. Emotions can motivate behavior both by preceding it, as when a child’s anger leads to kicking a bedroom wall, or by being a consequence of our actions, as when behaviors induce feelings of happiness, joy, excitement, and pride. Emotions do more than motivate our behavior, however. Can you imagine life without them? In this chapter we explore emotion...

Basic emotions, relations among emotions, and emotion-cognition relations.

From the cognitive theory perspective that emotions are cognition dependent and contain cognitive components, Ortony and Turner (1990) questioned the validity of the concept of basic emotions. They argued that the so-called basic emotions were neither psychologically or biologically "primitive" nor "irreducible building blocks" for generating the "great variety of emotional experiences." In the...

Children's interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions: relations to social behaviour.

The study investigated interpretive understanding, moral judgments, and emotion attributions in relation to social behaviour in a sample of 59 5-year-old, 123 7-year-old, and 130 9-year-old children. Interpretive understanding was assessed by two tasks measuring children's understanding of ambiguous situations. Moral judgments and emotion attributions were measured using two moral rule transgre...

Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture

Conveying Social Relations in Virtual Agents Through an Emotion Sharing and Response Model: (Extended Abstract)

The impact of social relationships in human behavior is a complex topic but it is an important aspect to consider when creating believable agents. To achieve more believable social relations, we focus on a phenomenon of human interaction that is tightly coupled to social relationships but has been overlooked in most agent models of emotions: the “social sharing of emotions”. It corresponds to a...