{"id":165606,"date":"2023-06-11T23:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/computational-model-mimics-humans-ability-to-predict-emotions"},"modified":"2023-06-11T23:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:30:29","slug":"computational-model-mimics-humans-ability-to-predict-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/computational-model-mimics-humans-ability-to-predict-emotions","title":{"rendered":"Computational model mimics humans\u2019 ability to predict emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computational-model-mimics-humans-ability-to-predict-emotions3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When interacting with another person, you likely spend part of your time trying to anticipate how they will feel about what you\u2019re saying or doing. This task requires a cognitive skill called theory of mind, which helps us to infer other people\u2019s beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions.<\/p>\n<p>MIT neuroscientists have now designed a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/computational+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computational model<\/a> that can predict other people\u2019s emotions\u2014including joy, gratitude, confusion, regret, and embarrassment\u2014approximating human observers\u2019 social intelligence. The model was designed to predict the emotions of people involved in a situation based on the prisoner\u2019s dilemma, a classic game theory scenario in which two people must decide whether to cooperate with their partner or betray them.<\/p>\n<p>To build the model, the researchers incorporated several factors that have been hypothesized to influence people\u2019s emotional reactions, including that person\u2019s desires, their expectations in a particular situation, and whether anyone was watching their actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When interacting with another person, you likely spend part of your time trying to anticipate how they will feel about what you\u2019re saying or doing. This task requires a cognitive skill called theory of mind, which helps us to infer other people\u2019s beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions. MIT neuroscientists have now designed a computational model [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}