Conflicted Minds: Recalibrational Emotions Following Trust-based Interaction

Eric Schniter, Roman Sheremeta and Timothy Shields

Working Papers from Chapman University, Economic Science Institute

Abstract: Consistent with a modular view of the mind, both short-sighted and long-sighted programs may be simultaneously active in the mind and in conflict with one another when individuals face choice dilemmas in trust-based economic interactions. Recalibrational theory helps us identify the adaptive design features shared among subsets of superordinate emotion programs. According to this design logic and the computation of adaptive problem features produced by Trust games, we predict the activation of emotions after Trust games. While this study successfully predicts reports of twenty distinct emotional states, further studies are needed to demonstrate ultimate recalibrational functions of emotions.

Keywords: emotions; recalibrational theory; modularity; Trust game; experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2011
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