Lecture 08: Aspects of emotion

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This is the eighth lecture for the Motivation and emotion unit of study.

What causes emotion?
Biology? Cognition? Sociality?

Overview

This lecture discusses biological, cognitive, and social aspects of emotion, along with consideration of the potential for affective computing.

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Readings

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

Multimedia

The video explains the work of Paul Ekman in codifying the intricate ways in which emotions are revealed through facial expressions:

• Emotions revealed - KQED QUEST (11:24 min video about Ekman's work)

The video explores the concept of unconscious emotional mimicry in relation to smiling:

• Why we can't not smile (2:47 min)

These videos explore and demonstrate what is becoming "emotionally" possible for robots:

• Robots that show emotion (TED talk, 5 mins.)
• Meet Sophia, World's first AI humanoid robot | Tony Robbins (9:55 mins)

Slides

• Lecture slides (Google Slides)
• 2020 handouts:
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See also

• Measuring emotion (Tutorial)
• Affective computing (Wikipedia)
• James–Lange theory (Wikipedia)
• Nature of emotion (Previous lecture)
• Individual emotions (Next lecture)

Recording

• 08 recording (2020)

References

External links

• Daniel Goleman introduces emotional intelligence (Youtube; 5:30 mins)
• Emotional intelligence by Daniel Goleman: Animated book summary (Youtube; 7:28 mins)
• In your face (Youtube; Mind Field Ep 7; 24:33 mins)
• Ron Gutman – The hidden power of smiling (TedTalks; 7:26 mins)