Affect Control Theory (ACT) is a mathematical model that makes accurate predictions about human behaviour across a wide range of settings. The predictions, which are derived from statistics about human actions and identities in real and laboratory environments, are shared prescriptive and affective behaviours that are believed to lead to solutions to everyday cooperative problems. A generalisat...

This paper proposes a novel approach to sentiment analysis that leverages work in sociology on symbolic interactionism. The proposed approach uses Affect Control Theory (ACT) to analyze readers’ sentiment towards factual (objective) content and towards its entities (subject and object). ACT is a theory of affective reasoning that uses empirically derived equations to predict the sentiments and ...

We report a 37-year-old male patient with schizophrenia and negative symptoms including blunted affect, avolition, alogia and asociality. Unexpectedly, the addition of milnacipran, a serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor and approved as an antidepressant, to his existing psychotropic regimen including aripiprazole selectively improved his negative symptoms. The present findings suggest...

AIM Objectives were to identify syndromes measured by BPRS-E scale and to analyse changes in syndromes' consistency in the course of a 12 year prospective study. METHOD A group of 80 patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia was followed up in 1, 3, 7 and 12 years after their first psychiatric hospitalisation. Their psychopathological status was investigated with BPRS-E scale. RESULT Four sy...

People often encounter one emotion-triggering event after another. To examine how an emotion experience affects those that follow, the current article draws on the appraisal-tendency framework and cognitive appraisal theories of emotion. The emotional blunting hypothesis predicts that a specific emotion can carry over to blunt the experience of a subsequent emotion when defined by contrasting a...

Affect Control Theory (ACT) is a powerful and general sociological model of human affective interaction. ACT provides an empirically derived mathematical model of culturally shared sentiments as heuristic guides for human decision making. BayesACT, a variant on classical ACT, combines affective reasoning with cognitive (denotative or logical) reasoning as is traditionally found in AI. BayesACT ...

This note describes some additional information that complements the main BayesAct-S model described in [2] 1 Comparing Situational and Fundamental Self Sentiments In the paper we use the following function to measure inauthenticity: ia(s) = ln ( Pr(ss) Pr(sf ) ) (1) However, the original statement of the theory in [1] hypothesises that inauthenticity is a difference, from which we derived that...

The symptoms of emotional dysregulation associated with the syndrome known as pseudobulbar affect (PBA) can be effectively treated by the sigma, glutamate, and serotonergic agent dextromethorphan combined with quinidine. If the same brain circuits affected in PBA are also compromised in related disorders of emotional expression, dextromethorphan-quinidine and other novel sigma-glutamate-seroton...

Notions of identity and of the self have long been studied in social psychology and sociology as key guiding elements of social interaction and coordination. In the AI of the future, these notions will also play a role in producing natural, socially appropriate artificially intelligent agents that encompass subtle and complex human social and affective skills. We propose here a Bayesian general...

OBJECTIVE Negative symptoms of patients with Schizophrenia are resistant to medical treatment or conventional group therapy. Understanding schizophrenia as a form of disembodiment of the self, a number of scientists have argued that the approach of embodiment and associated embodied therapies, such as Dance and Movement Therapy (DMT) or Body Psychotherapy (BPT), may be more suitable to explain ...