Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Aspects of emotion

Lecture 08: Aspects of emotion
This is the eighth lecture for the motivation and emotion unit of study.

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This lecture:

Take-home messages:

  • Biology and cognition work together to generate emotion
  • Facial expressions can influence emotional state
  • Other people are the source of most of our emotions
  • Emotions are contagious
  • There are some cultural differences in interpretation of emotion
  • Robots can increasingly detect and imitate emotion

Outline edit

  • Biological
  • Cognitive
  • Social
  • Affective computing

Readings edit

  1. Chapter 13: Aspects of emotion (Reeve, 2018)

Multimedia edit

  • Emotions revealed (KQED QUEST, YouTube) (11:01 mins): Explains work by Paul Ekman in codifying the intricate ways in which emotions are revealed through facial expressions.
  • Why we can't not smile (YouTube) (2:22 mins): Explores the concept of unconscious emotional mimicry in relation to smiling.
  • Meet Sophia, World's first AI humanoid robot (Tony Robbins, YouTube) (9:55 mins): Tony Robbins interviews an AI robot about life, the universe, and everything.

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See also edit

Lectures
Tutorial
Wikiversity
Wikipedia

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References edit

Izard, C. E. (2010). The many meanings/aspects of emotion: Definitions, functions, activation, and regulation. Emotion Review, 2(4), 363–370. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073910374661

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