Interdisciplinary Advances in Affective Cognition

July 26, 2021 | Workshop at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Virtual)
 

In Ancient Greek philosophy, emotion is considered the opposite of cognition: cognition is rational while emotion is irrational; cognition is cold while emotion is hot. Yet, for anyone who studies how the human mind works, the ubiquity and significance of emotions in our mental lives is undeniable. We can represent not only others’ goals, desires, beliefs, and actions but also their emotional responses to events, and our ability to reason about others’ emotions greatly influences how we interact with others.

This workshop features an emerging domain of work that investigates how humans reason about others’ emotion or affect, which we term Affective Cognition. This research area is grounded in traditional theory of mind research that investigates how we reason about other minds. In recent years, the application of interdisciplinary approaches, including developmental, computational, neural, anthropological, and machine learning methods, has given this area an impetus for rapid growth and exciting achievements. We propose that Affective Cognition is an emerging domain of Cognitive Science, and we bring together a group of leading scholars in Affective Cognition to introduce this young, interdisciplinary domain to the cognitive science community.

Invited Speakers

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Hyowon Gweon

Stanford University

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Eric Walle

University of California, Merced

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György Gergely

Central European University, Budapest

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Daniel Dukes

University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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Kara Weisman

Developing Belief Network

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Desmond Ong

National University of Singapore
& A*STAR Singapore

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Yang Wu

Stanford University /
University of Toronto Scarborough

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Seth Pollak

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Vanessa LoBue

University of Rutgers, Newark

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Mark Thornton

Dartmouth College

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Anat Perry

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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lldikó Király

Central European University, Budapest

Workshop Schedule (July 26)

(CEST: Central European Summer Time; PDT: Pacific Daylight Time; CDT: Central Daylight Time; EDT: Eastern Daylight Time; IDT: Israel Daylight Time; SGT: Singapore Time)

Time Session
15:00 CEST

6:00 PDT
8:00 CDT
9:00 EDT
16:00 IDT
21:00 SGT

Opening Remarks (5 min)
  • Desmond Ong & Yang Wu
15:05 CEST

6:05 PDT
8:05 CDT
9:05 EDT
16:05 IDT
21:05 SGT

Session 1: Developmental approach to affective cognition (25 min / talk)
  • Eric Walle: Learning from and about emotions
  • György Gergely & lldikó Király: The role of fear of social reputation loss in inducing Spontaneous Reason-giving and self-justification in young children
  • Daniel Dukes: Affective social learning
  • Yang Wu: Emotion as information
16:45 CEST

7:45 PDT
9:45 CDT
10:45 EDT
17:45 IDT
22:45 SGT

Session 1: Panel discussion (25 min, followed by a 5-min break)
17:15 CEST

8:15 PDT
10:15 CDT
11:15 EDT
18:15 IDT
23:15 SGT

Session 2: Neural & computational approaches to affective cognition (25 min / talk)
  • Anat Perry: The contribution of different information channels to empathy and social communication
  • Desmond Ong: Modelling Emotion Understanding as Multimodal Inference
  • Mark Thornton: People accurately and automatically predict affective dynamics
18:30 CEST

9:30 PDT
11:30 CDT
12:30 EDT
19:30 IDT
00:30 SGT [+1]

Session 2: Panel discussion (25 min, followed by a 5-min break)
19:00 CEST

10:00 PDT
12:00 CDT
13:00 EDT
20:00 IDT
01:00 SGT [+1]

Poster session (60 min)
  • All poster presenters will be answering questions at gather.town.
20:00 CEST

11:00 PDT
13:00 CDT
14:00 EDT
21:00 IDT
02:00 SGT [+1]

Session 3: Environmental & cultural effects on affective cognition (25 min / talk)
  • Seth Pollak: The development of emotion reasoning
  • Vanessa LoBue: Human responses to threat: A developmental approach
  • Kara Weisman: "Cultural effects": How do emotions fit into broader representations of mental life across cultural settings
21:15 CEST

12:15 PDT
14:15 CDT
15:15 EDT
22:15 IDT
03:15 SGT [+1]

Session 3: Panel discussion (25 min, followed by a 5-min break)
21:45 CEST

12:45 PDT
14:45 CDT
15:45 EDT
22:45 IDT
03:45 SGT [+1]

Closing remarks (5 min)
  • Hyowon Gweon

Poster Session

* indicates presenting author

Poster # Title & Authors
1 Parent-child synchrony from birth to adulthood mediates neural representation of empathy
by Adi Ulmer Yaniv*, Roy Salomon, Shani Waidergoren, Ortal Shimon-Raz, Amir Djalovski, & Ruth Feldman
2 Yay! Yuck! Toddlers use incongruent emotions to reason about hidden objects
by Alexis S. Smith-Flores* & Lisa Feigenson
3 Development in children’s use of probability to infer emotions
by Tiffany Doan*, Ori Friedman, & Stephanie Denison
4 Using children’s surprise reports to measure their ability to generalize across moral sub-domains
by Inderpreet Gill* & Jessica Sommerville
5 Sympathy to others’ general misfortune reduces empathic resonance with their current joy
by Lior Abramson*, Ariel Knafo-Noam, & Anat Perry
6 Take Your Word or Tone for It? Attention to Emotional Cues in Speech among European American and Chinese Children
by Yang Yang*, Li Wang, & Qi Wang
7 Predicting individual effects of emotion priming on attention using EEG and skin conductance
by Haneul Song* & Sang Ah Lee
8 Context in Automated Affect Recognition
by Matthew Groh* & Rosalind Picard
9 Unsupervised, Supervised, and Semi-supervised Learning of Novel Emotion Categories
by Ashley Ruba*, Andrea Stein, & Seth Pollak
10 Children’s and Adults’ Intuitions about Wanting versus Liking as Causes of Behaviors and Emotions
by Hannah J. Kramer* & Kristin H. Lagattuta
11 Modeling emotion from naturalistic emotional narratives in Hebrew
by Gabrielle Marmur*, Ori Fessler, & Anat Perry
12 Children's Use of Emotional Information to Make Social Choices and Inferences
by Ashley Ransom*, Adam Anderson, Eve De Rosa, & Lin Bian
13 Amplification in the Evaluation of Multiple Emotional Expressions Over Time
by Jonas Paul Schöne*, Amit Goldenberg, Ziyang Huang, Timothy D. Sweeny, David Levari, Desmond C. Ong, Jamil Zaki, Tim F. Brady, Maria M. Robinson, & James J. Gross
14 Using Expressed Emotions to Make Moral Evaluations
by Sohee Ahn*, Jamie Amemiya, & Gail Heyman
15 You can’t trust an angry group: asymmetric evaluations of angry and surprised rhetoric affect confidence in trending opinions
by Emory Richardson* & Frank C. Keil
16 Emotion Cognition in Interpersonal Contexts: Self-Enhancing Biases and Differences by Cultural Orientation
by Yuerui Wu*, Hannah J. Kramer, & Kristin H. Lagattuta
17 Interacting roles of prematurity and parent-child synchrony in preschoolers' socioemotional and behavioral development
by Haley Laughlin*, Paige Nelson, Francesca Scheiber, Allison Momany, & Ece Demir-Lira
18 Displays and Observations of Emotion Signals in a Social Dilemma: Context and Regulation Matter
by Rens Hoegen*, Jonathan Gratch, Brian Parkinson, & Danielle Shore
19 Perception of emotions in young adults with intellectual disability: Does the severity of disability impact identification of spoken emotions?
by Vered Shakuf*, Maya Mentzel, & Boaz M. Ben-David

Organizers

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Yang Wu

Stanford University /
University of Toronto Scarborough

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Desmond Ong

National University of Singapore
& A*STAR Singapore

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Hyowon Gweon

Stanford University

Other Information

View the full workshop description here.

Check here for more information about the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Check here for a previous workshop on Affective Cognition at the 2019 Cognitive Development Society.