Using Social Agents to Explore Theories of Rapport and Emotional Resonance
Abstract
Emotions are often described as momentary, even discrete, reactions to some specific event. For example, we see a bear in the forest, and fear seems to emerge without bidding, fully formed. Writing around the same time as William James, George Herbert Mead employed a very different metaphor to emphasize how emotions can incrementally unfold and resonate between social actors. He asks us to imagine two angry dogs preparing to fight (Mead, 1934, pp. 4243): The act of each dog becomes the stimulus of the other dog for his response. There is then a relationship between these two; and as the act is responded to by the other dog, it, in turn, undergoes change .The very fact that the dog is ready to attack another becomes a stimulus to the other dog to change his own position of his own attitude
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2014
- Accession Number
- AD1171573
Entities
People
- Jonathan Gratch
- Ning Wang
- Sin-hwa Kang
Organizations
- University of Southern California