Emotional appraisal of moral dilemma in characters

  • Authors:
  • Cristina Battaglino;Rossana Damiano

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica and CIRMA, Università di Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica and CIRMA, Università di Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICIDS'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Interactive Storytelling
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In the narrative realm, emotions in general, and moral emotions in particular, play an important role in conveying moral values to the audience. A paradigmatic case is given by the occurrence of moral dilemmas in stories, where the character must trade off options that cannot be reconciled, each related with a certain moral value. In this paper, we propose a model of the appraisal of moral emotions, and describe an agent architecture that reacts to the occurrence of a moral dilemma with the appropriate emotions.