Linking Emotions: Emotions as the Invisible Threads that Bind People Together

Basic Emotions, Complex Emotions, Machiavellian Emotions

Abstract The current state of knowledge in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and behavioral ecology allows a fairly robust characterization of at least some, so-called ‘basic emotions’ short-lived emotional responses with homologues in other vertebrates. Philosophers, however are understandably more focused on the complex emotion episodes that figure in folk-psychological narratives about ment...

Java for Real-Time Systems: The Threads that Bind

Design, Emotions, and How People Think

While in the past design focused on products, our new challenge is to focus on people. An understanding of perceptions and the emotional connections people form with products and services is critical factors in advancing the practice of design. This paper will begin by discussing our background at Smart Design in exploring design and perception. It will then discuss our current methods that hel...

Emotions and the brain: linking affective disorders to brain regions.

THE LANCET Neurology Vol 1 June 2002 http://neurology.thelancet.com 80 If you respond to the question “what is apathy?” by saying “I don’t know and I don’t care”, you’ve got the correct answer. But if you didn’t get this joke, you may be suffering from impaired humour appreciation, according to research presented at this year’s Rotman Research Institute Conference (Toronto, ON, Canada; March 25...

Ecometrics: the traits that bind the past and present together.

We outline here an approach for understanding the biology of climate change, one that integrates data at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Taxon-free trait analysis, or "ecometrics," is based on the idea that the distribution in a community of ecomorphological traits such as tooth structure, limb proportions, body mass, leaf shape, incubation temperature, claw shape, any aspect of anatomy o...