The interest of the application of emotional computational models to improve the design of intelligent robots has been growing in the roboticist community for the last years. Emotional models are used to modulate the robot cognitive system to improve its ongoing behaviour control. A key issue of the design is the selection and modulation of the cognitive behavioural load depending on the proble...

This study compared the relative goodness of fit of three well-established factorial models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among 477 African American male firefighters in a large city in the US. The compared models were the two four-factor emotional numbing and dysphoria models and a five-factor dysphoric arousal model. The study also examined the convergent and discriminant v...

Human models of emotional processing suggest that the direct effect of successful antidepressant drug treatment may be to modify biases in the processing of emotional information. Negative biases in emotional processing are documented in depression, and single or short-term dosing with conventional antidepressant drugs reverses these biases in depressed patients prior to any subjective change i...

Models of visual emotional perception suggest a reentrant organization of the ventral visual system with the amygdala. Using focused functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans with a sampling rate of 100 ms, here we determine the relative timing of emotional discrimination in amygdala and ventral visual cortical structures during emotional perception. Results show that amygdala and inferot...

We introduce an emotional agent model that shows how emotions affect an agent’s negotiation strategy. By adding emotions, we add the effects of these indirectly related features to the negotiation, features that are ignored in most models. Our new method, the PAD Emotional Negotiation Model, maps a nonemotional agent’s strategy during negotiation to the strategy used by an emotional agent. Our ...

How we feel reflects a combination of recalled and recognized emotions. All existing self-report measures are based solely on recognized emotions. To understand the influence of recalled emotions, we developed a new method to recover human emotional states based on emotional free association, in a task we call the emotional fluency. The present work investigated the differences between recall a...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a term that has several definitions and theories. Three major views in the field of EI will be presented and discussed in this thesis, furthermore some practical implications for the research. There will also be a brief overview of the two fields of emotion and intelligence research, from where the concept of EI has emerged. The first view presented is Mayer and S...

Emotional agents are an active research domain, with direct application in several industrial fields such as video games, interactive environments or enhanced human computer interactions. Emotional behavior should consider both the representation of the emotions and the mood states. There are two mostly accepted, and used, cognitive psychological models for this: OCC model and PAD model.Based o...