Personality: The Regulator of Behavior, Motivation, Affect, and Cognition

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Modeling Behavioral Manifestations

• emotion-behavior linkage less constrained
  than cognition-emotion linkage

• affected by intensity and coping potential

• initial proposal for taxonomy of behavioral
  manifestations or causal correlates

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behavior
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motivational (coping)
physical hyperactive movement
vocal shrieking
internal
external
physical/postural hand-slapping
vocal cheering
evaluative admiring
attentional obsessing
reflective
reactive
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Modeling Behavioral Manifestations

• which particular behaviors are selected depends
  partly on motivational component
  considerations of capacity, time, prudence, etc.

• initial rough proposal only needs refining,
  validating, and eventual formalizing

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1a. From a psychological perspective, why have
emotions at all? Why not go straight from
perceiving the world in terms of our concerns to
behavioral consequences? 1b. From a computational
perspective, if you were building an intelligent
agent, would there be a problem with going
straight from perceiving the world in terms of
the agents concerns to behavioral consequences?
If so, how would you solve the problem?
2a. From a psychological perspective, what would
it mean for there to be basic emotions? 2b. From
a computational perspective, if you specified a
set of basic emotions, which would they be, and
what would you do with them?
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3 . From a computational linguistic perspective,
explore the (in)adequacy of Wordnet as the
semantic basis of an NLP (Natural Language
Processing) system that understands the
language of emotions.
4b. From a psychological perspective, how are
emotions, moods, temperament, and traits related?
4b. From a computational perspective, would it
be important to, and if so how would you,
distinguish emotions from moods, temperament, and
traits?
5. From a psychological perspective, the
cognitions underlying emotions are often
unconscious. Can emotions themselves be
unconscious?
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6a. If you were building a computational
architecture, how would you relate the memory
system(s) to the emotional system? 6b. From a
psychological perspective, what do you suppose
are the important connections between memory and
emotion?
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