Annotated Bibliography

Baron-Cohen, Simon. (1995). Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind. MIT Press.

A fascinating explanation of what autism may entail. (This book is a little bit dated. More recent articles by the same author offer a more lucid discussion.)

Baron-Cohen, Simon. (2003). Mind Reading - the interactive guide to emotions [Computer software]. Retrieved Jan 25, 2004, from http://www.human-emotions.com/

Beck, Judith S. (1995). Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond. New York: The Guilford Press.

An introduction to cognitive therapy by the daughter of the founder of cognitive therapy.

Colby, K. M. (1981). Modeling a paranoid mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 515-560.

Colby, K. M., Hilf, F. D., Weber, S., & Kraemer, H. C. (1972). Turing-like indistinguishability Tests for the Validation of a Computer Simulation of Paranoid Process. Artificial Intelligence, 3, 199-221.

Colby, K. M., Weber, S., & Hilf, F. D. (1971). Artificial Paranoia. Artificial Intelligence, 2, 1-25.

Damasio, Antonio R. (1994). Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. Avon.

Many fascinating case studies illustrate the neurological basis of “reason.” (An investigation related to hot cognition.)

Dasser, V., Ulbaek, I., & Premack, D. (1989). The perception of intention. Science, 243, 365-367.

Galitsky, Boris. (2000). Simulating autistic patients as agents with corrupted reasoning about mental states. In AAAI FSS-2000 Symposium on Simulating human agents (pp. 27-37). Cape Cod, MA: AAAI Tech report FS-00-03.

Galitsky, Boris. (2002). Extending the BDI model to accelerate the mental development of autistic patients. In Second Intl. Conf. on Development & Learning (pp. 82-89). Cambridge, MA

Grandin, Temple (1995). Thinking in Pictures and other reports from my life with autism. New York: Vintage Books.

An autobiography by an autistic woman who has a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois.

Heider, F. & Simmel, M. (1944). An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior. American Journal of Psychology, 57(2 April), 243-259.

Jarrold, William L. (2004). Towards a Theory of Affective Mind: Computationally Modeling the Generativity of Goal Appraisal. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

Murthy, K. V. S. (1997). On Growing Better Decision Trees from Data. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Ortony, A. (2001). On making believable emotional agents believable. In R. Trappl, P. Petta, & S. Payr (eds.), Emotions in humans and artifacts. MIT Press.

Highlights the importance of ‘believability’ in the evaluation of affectual theories.

Ortony, Clore, & Collins (1988). The Cognitive Structure of Emotions. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

A cognitive appraisal theory which aims to be computationally tractible. Perhaps the most convincing theory to date.

Persson, P., Laaksolahti, J., & Lönnqvist, P. (2000). Anthropomorphism - a Multi-Layered Phenomenon. AAAI Fall symposium, Socially Intelligent Agents - The Human in the Loop, North Falmouth, MA.

Picard, Rosalind W. (1997). Affective Computing. MIT Press.

A broad overview and introduction to the field.

Sanders, Kathryn E. (1989). A logic for emotions: a basis for reasoning about commonsense psychological knowledge. (Technical Report 89-23). Brown University, Computer Science Department.

Scassellati, Brian. (2001). Foundations for a Theory of Mind for a Humanoid Robot. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, MIT Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Scherer, K. R. (1994). Emotion serves to decouple stimulus and response. In P. Ekman & R. J. Davidson (Eds.), The nature of emotion: Fundamental questions (pp. 127-130). New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.

A brief and readable overview of emotion research questions.

Tomkins, S. S. (1962). Affect, imagery, consciousness. Vol 2, The negative affects. New York: Springer.

Related Research

The following articles seem relevant to our research (or just plain fascinating):

Reference Synopsis
Lebbink, Witteman, & Meyer. (2004). A Dialogue Game to Offer an Agreement to Disagree. Second International Workshop for Programming Multi-Agent Systems: Language and Tools, New York, NY, 103-114. A rigorous specification of "agreement to disagree"
Wiesman & Roos. (2004). Domain independent learning of ontology mappings. Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, New York, NY. -
Balas & Tenenbaum. (2004). Domain-Specificity in Shape Categorization and Perception. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, 67-72. Further evidence in support of the intentionality detector (ID)
Beller & Bender. (2004). Cultural Differences in the Cognition and Emotion of Conditional Promises and Threats -- Comparing Germany and Tonga. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, 85-90. -
Chang & Gurevich. (2004). Content-Driven Construction Learning. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, 204-209. A computation model of how children learn language
Ferres. (2004). Explorations of the (Meta)Representational Status of Desire in the Theory-Theory of Mind Framework. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, 381-386. Representation of desire occurs much earlier than false-belief
Gordon & Nair. (2004). Expressions Related to Knowledge and Belief in Children’s Speech. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, 476-481. Tracing development of TOM speech for ages 3-5
Hancock, Curry, Goorha, & Woodworth. (2004). Lies in Conversation: An Examination of Deception Using Automated Linguistic Analysis. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, 535-540. -
Scheutz. (2004). An Artificial Life Approach to the Study of Basic Emotions. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, 1203-1208. -
Everett, Daniel. (2004). Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Piraha: Another Look at the Design Features of Human Language. Manuscript submitted for publication. A Brazilian language (or culture) which seems to lack abstract constructions

The following people are doing research which seems closely related to our interests. Even though we haven’t made a formal citation (yet), we mention their names here to show our enthusiasm.

Aaron Ben-Ze’ev

Clark Elliott

Jonathan Gratch

Stacy Marcella

Andrew S. Gordon

Michelle G. Winner

Random & Fun

Robot Stories — Science fiction from the heart (a film)

Konstantin Stanislavski



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