Cognitive evaluations and intuitive appraisals: Can emotion models handle them both?

Abstract

This chapter deals with the complex relationships between cognitive representations and processes (not reduced to “epistemic” representations but including the motivational ones: goals) and emotions. It adopts a belief–desire–intention paradigm (the explicit account of mental representations and of their “reading” in interaction), but psychologically and computationally sophisticated: for example, by a “dual-process” theory, distinguishing the “intuitive thinking” from the “deliberative thinking,” or by a probabilistic approach to the beliefs–goals network. This representation of the mental background of the emotion is also necessary for accounting for emotional interaction, which is based on mind reading, not just on emotional expressions.