Title | Modeling emotion attributions as inference in an intuitive theory of mind. |
Publication Type | Conference Poster |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Houlihan, SD, Saxe, R |
Conference Name | Mechanisms Underlying Emotion Regulation and Developmental Psychopathology |
Place Published | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Keywords | attribution, bayes, emotion, inference, inverse, perception |
Abstract | We model how people make third party emotion attributions as integration of perceptual cues and conceptual event knowledge in an intuitive causal theory of mind. Novel stimuli generated from a televised gameshow provide authentic (not staged) dynamic displays of emotion in the context of a quantifiable and repeatable game (a one-shot prisoner's dilemma). The gameshow involves public acts of cooperation, commitment, and betrayal, with stakes spanning five orders of magnitude (max ≈ $200,000), and thus supports a wide range of inferred emotions. The raw footage is separated into expression cues and contextual descriptions such that each player's emotions can be inferred from the player's reactions to the outcome (i.e. facial expressions and body postures), or from the event context (i.e. stakes, actions, and outcomes), or from both information sources together. |
Citation Key | 2721 |
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