Sentiment expression conditioned by affective transitions and social forces
Moritz Sudhof, Andrés Goméz Emilsson, Andrew L. Maas, Christopher E. Potts · 2014
Human emotional states are not independent but rather proceed along systematic paths governed by both internal, cognitive factors and external, social ones. For example, anxiety often transitions to disappointment, which is likely to sink to depression before rising to happiness and relaxation, and these states are conditioned by the states of others in our communities. Modeling these complex dependencies can yield insights into human emotion and support more powerful sentiment technologies.