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Kitajima, M., & Toyota, M. (2015)

Kitajima, M., & Toyota, M. (2015). Two Minds and Emotion. COGNITIVE 2015 : The Seventh International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, 8-16.

 

Two Minds and Emotion

Human behavior can be viewed as the integration of the outputs of Systems 1, i.e., unconscious automatic processes, and System 2, i.e., conscious deliberate processes. System 1 activates a sequence of automatic actions. System 2 monitors System 1's performance according to the plan it has created, and it activates future possible courses of actions as well. At the same time when these forward processes are working, System 1 and System 2 deal with the outcome of the forward processes by estimating the results of System 1's and System 2's performance, i.e., good or bad, and generating emotions depending on the degree of goodness or badness of the estimation. Emotions are generated through the dynamics of the parallel processing of System 1 and System 2, which is called O-PDP, Organic Parallel Distributed Processing. This paper discusses how emotion generation process is integrated with the Kahneman's System 1 and System 2 model of human decision-making.

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