Emotion Contagion in a Cognitive Architecture

The issue of emotion contagion in various settings has been gaining attention recently. Humans share emotions, for example, through gestures or speech or through online text via social media. There have been computational models in the past to try to capture emotion contagion. However, these models are limited as they tend to represent human agents mainly through simple equation-based or rule-based systems. We use a more psychologically realistic model - the Clarion cognitive architecture - as the basic building block to model emotion and emotion contagion. In particular, we use Clarion to capture and explain human data from a human experiment on emotion contagion.