Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Aspects of emotion

Overview
This lecture:
 * discusses biological, cognitive, and social aspects of emotion
 * considers the potential for affective computing

Take-home messages:
 * Biology and cognition work together to generate emotion
 * Facial expressions can influence emotional state
 * Other people are the source of most of our emotions
 * Emotions are contagious
 * There are some cultural differences in interpretation of emotion
 * Robots can increasingly detect and imitate emotion

Outline

 * Biological
 * Cognitive
 * Social
 * Affective computing

Readings

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

Multimedia

 * Emotions revealed (KQED QUEST, YouTube) (11:01 mins): Explains work by Paul Ekman in codifying the intricate ways in which emotions are revealed through facial expressions.
 * Why we can't not smile (YouTube) (2:22 mins): Explores the concept of unconscious emotional mimicry in relation to smiling.
 * Meet Sophia, World's first AI humanoid robot (Tony Robbins, YouTube) (9:55 mins): Tony Robbins interviews an AI robot about life, the universe, and everything.

Slides

 * Aspects of emotion (Google Slides)

Recording

 * Lecture 08 recording (2023)