Rejecting unfairness: emotion-driven reaction or cognitive heuristic?

Rejecting unfairness: emotion-driven reaction or cognitive heuristic?

In the following paragraphs, I am arguing that rejecting inequality, even when it means sacrificing available resources, could be interpreted as a default response that occurs when there is no other reason to choose otherwise. Moreover, I am reviewing some of our latest findings suggesting that emotions might not be the sole mechanism that ultimately explains this response, as claimed instead b...

Honesty mediates the relationship between serotonin and reaction to unfairness.

How does one deal with unfair behaviors? This subject has long been investigated by various disciplines including philosophy, psychology, economics, and biology. However, our reactions to unfairness differ from one individual to another. Experimental economics studies using the ultimatum game (UG), in which players must decide whether to accept or reject fair or unfair offers, have also shown t...

Heuristic Driven Chart-parsing

To integrate Computer Aided systems (CA*-systems) in the area of Mechanical Engineering (ME) with other applications in the world of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), one principal approach under development is based on feature representation. It enables any CA*-system to recognize the higher-level entities { the so-called features in ME { out of a lower-data exchange format. In this pap...

Emotion-Driven Reinforcement Learning

Existing computational models of emotion are primarily concerned with creating more realistic agents, with recent efforts looking into matching human data, including qualitative emotional responses and dynamics. In this paper, our work focuses on the functional benefits of emotion in a cognitive system where emotional feedback helps drive reinforcement learning. Our system is an integration of ...

Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy