Coping with shame and sense of guilt: a Dynamic Logic Account

Authors:
Paolo Turrini;John-Jules Ch. Meyer;Cristiano Castelfranchi
Affiliations:
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands;ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Venue:
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Aim of this work is to provide a formal characterization of those emotions that deal with normative reasoning, such as shame and sense of guilt, to understand their relation with rational action and to ground their formalization on a cognitive science perspective. In order to do this we need to identify the factors that constitute the preconditions and trigger the reactions of shame and sense of guilt in cognitive agents, that is when agents feel ashamed or guilty and what agents do when they feel so. We will also investigate how agents can induce and silence these feelings in themselves, i.e. the analysis of defensive strategies they can employ. We will argue that agents do have control over their emotions and we will analyze some operations they can carry out on them.