Emotion: Theoretical Investigations and Implications for Artificial Social Aggregates [chapter]

Christian von Scheve, Daniel Moldt
2004 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
One of the most pressing issues in the social sciences and in distributed artificial intelligence research is the micro-macro link that is the question of how individual action and social structure are interrelated. Besides others disciplines, sociological research has identified emotion as being a possible key component in this link. Unfortunately, sociological theories in question remain relatively basic, and do not refer to emotion research from other disciplines. We show that emotion
more » ... s and models from cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, and computer science constitute a valuable, if not mandatory foundation for sociological issues in emotion research. We therefore present an integrated view on emotion. The goal is to relate specific micro-macro aspects of emotion theory with general sociological theories of societal structuration. This issue is briefly discussed in the context of an exemplifying multi-agent architecture.
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25867-4_12 fatcat:dmkbmb6ubzdcdew3pf7rs2vrea