AI and Cognitive Science have largely
Ignored the modeling of emotions and their
Influence on cognition. Yet clinical
psychologists suggest that emotions are of
all factors the most Important for driving
people's motivations, that Is, In establishing
goals and intentions. Emotions and
emotional reactions are instrumental in
understanding what problems people solve.
This paper describes an implementation of
a model of h u m a n emotions. The system
we have built is a considerable extension of
the model described by [Ortony, Clore. and
Collins. 19881. The system consists of
emotion detectors for almost 3 0 emotions
related to events, agents and objects;
emotional intensities are also computed.
A n extensive simulation has been
constructed to demonstrate the operation of
the system.