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Thursday, May 08, 2025

Sets in Hodges' model

INDIVIDUAL
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     INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               
HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      
SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 
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GROUP

'The emotions that we want to infer are the seven basic emotion categories.
Concretely this set is E = {Anger,  Contempt, Disgust, Fear, Happy, Sadness, Surprise}.' p.111.*

Sets - Venn diagrams

Physical obs = { Temperature, Pulse, Respiration, Blood Pressure, Gait ... }
Social = { Friends, Family, Work colleagues, Neighbours ... }

Politics { [Freedom], - Elections, Law, Policy, Government, MPs, Ministers, PM-President ... }



David Sanchez-Mendoza, David Masip, Xavier Baro, and Agata Lapedriza. Emotion Detection Using Hybrid Structural and Appearance Descriptors. In. MDAI 2013: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence - Volume 8234 November 2013. Pages 105–116 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41550-0_10

*I am unable to double-check this reference and hope it is correct(?).

See also:
UNIVERSAL EMOTIONS: Paul Ekman Group