Working Group on Emotions in Social Interactions

Lola Cañamero (LRI, University of Paris-XI, France)

For many authors, emotions come into play as soon as (and only when) we consider individuals in interaction with their social environment. In any case, and regardless whether we are willing to accept that emotions evolved as a communication tool, emotions and their expression are an essential element in social interactions.

Some of the questions we might want to discuss during the working group session:

• The roles of emotions in social situations: signaling, situation assessment, construction of self- and other's image, building expectations, intersubjectivity, etc.
• What does affect communicate?
• How to better communicate with affect? The different modalities of emotion expression.
• Primitives for emotional expression and perception.
• Models of/for social emotions.
• Emotional interactions between humans and artificial agents: What can we draw from human to human emotional interactions?
• How do culture and society shape the conceptualization and experience of emotions?
• Roles of emotions in the emergence of collective behaviors: emotional contagion, "optimal convergence" in vocal communication, etc.
• Mutual influences between social structures (status and dominance hierarchies, group cohesion, etc.) and affective phenomena.
• Emotional and social disorders: parallels and intersections.

If you think of other topics for discussion, please mail them to me or bring them with you to the symposium.

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