Title
Towards Understanding Emotional Experience in a Componential Framework
Abstract
Emotions are inseparable part of human nature affecting our behavior in response to the outside world. Although most empirical studies have been dominated by two theoretical models including discrete categories of emotion and dichotomous dimensions, results from neuroscience approaches suggest a multi-processes mechanism underpinning emotional experience with a large overlap across different emotions. While these findings are consistent with the influential theories of emotion in psychology that emphasise a role for multiple component processes to generate emotion episodes, few studies have systematically investigated the relationship between discrete emotions and a full componential view. This paper applies a componential framework with a data-driven approach to characterise emotional experiences evoked during movie watching. Results suggest that differences between various emotions can be captured by a few (at least 6) latent dimensions, each defined by features associated with component processes, including appraisal, expression, physiology, motivation, and feeling. In addition, the link between discrete emotions and component model is explored and results show that a componential model with limited number of descriptors is still able to predict the level of experienced discrete emotion(s) to a satisfactory level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACII.2019.8925491
2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
Keywords
Field
DocType
emotion,component model,emotion mechanism,emotion dimensions,data-driven approach,computational modelling,emotional experience,emotion recognition
Social psychology,Discrete emotions,Discrete category,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Multiple component,Theoretical models,Feeling,Empirical research
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2156-8103
978-1-7281-3889-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gelareh Mohammadi125713.37
Kangying Lin200.34
P Vuilleumier343540.82