Cognitive Evaluations And Intuitive Appraisals: Can Emotion Models Handle Them Both?

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.