Last summer, I gave a guest lecture in Dr. Angelica Lim’s course on Affective Computing at the Department of Computer Science of Simon Fraser University. I said I’d publish the presentation on YouTube, so here it finally is:
Tag: emotions
What Causes Grief to Endure? Part 1: Your Turn
There are two sets of “emotions” the understanding of which are most helpful to understanding all perturbant emotions: grief and romantic love. To understand these two requires answering several questions about them. One of the questions is: what causes grief to endure? Continue reading What Causes Grief to Endure? Part 1: Your Turn
L’indicible et l’essentiel
En blogguant récemment à propos du concept allemand de betroffenheit, j’ai écrit
But English and French words only capture part of the meaning of betroffenheit.
Continue reading L’indicible et l’essentiel
Do You Know Your Own Moods? Pointers to a Progressive Research Program on Core Affect
Quick: What mood are you in right now? This (loaded) question is interesting because it can help us deeply understand ourselves. It’s not that one’s current mood is highly informative, but that in order to understand oneself it helps to have a helpful mental model of moods. This is something I struggled with until I read Robert Thayer’s Calm Energy, and later, James Russell’s theory of “core affect”.
