Integrating Adaptive Emotional Agents in ITS

Abstract

A wealth of emotional models, with starkly differing views concerning the relation between cognition and emotion, generally show emotions like a mechanism facilitating human adaptation and social integration. Cognitive reflection can help us to guide and moderate our emotions and few differences in affective states may have a pronounced impact on cognitive processes. When people are in positive affective states, information processing is strongly influenced by heuristics, stereotypes, or scripts, whereas in negative affective states, they tend to be more conservative, linear, and sequential in their thinking process which is more easily affected by the implications of specific information provided in the situation. The main question is “how different affective states are linked to different styles of information processing?”.