title: Why robots will have emotions
creator: Sloman, Aaron
creator: Croucher, Monica
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Robotics
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: Emotions involve complex processes produced by interactions between motives, beliefs, percepts, etc. E.g. real or imagined fulfilment or violation of a motive, or triggering of a 'motive-generator', can disturb processes produced by other motives. To understand emotions, therefore, we need to understand motives and the types of processes they can produce. This leads to a study of the global architecture of a mind. Some constraints on the evolution of minds are disussed. Types of motives and the processes they generate are sketched.
date: 1981-08
type: Departmental Technical Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/705/2/Aaron.Sloman_why_robot_emotions.ps
identifier:   Sloman, Aaron and Croucher, Monica  (1981) Why robots will have emotions.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/705/