Motivation: why deal with “e-word”?
“The inevitable result of overcoming the body-mind split”
Situated agents:
- necessity of “built-in knowledge” about what is “good” & “bad”
- emotions as “perception”, to discover environment (including “self”)
- emotions as dual control system (elicitation and regulation)
Affect and Personality:
- personality: concern with pattern and organization
- affect: plays central role in the organization and patterning of individual's functioning
- emotions as basis of identity (personality at level of individual)