Emotions and moods color cognition. In this article, we outline how emotions affect judgments and cognitive performance of human agents. We argue that affective influences are due, not to the affective reactions themselves, but to the information they carry about value, a potentially useful finding for creators of artificial agents. The kind of influence that occurs depends on the focus of the agent at the time. When making evaluative judgments, for example, agents may experience positive affect as a positive attitude toward a person or object. But when an agent focuses on a cognitive task, positive affect may act like performance feedback, with positive affect giving a green light to cognitive, relational processes. By contrast, negative affect tends to inhibit relational processing, resulting in a more perceptual, stimulus-specific processing. One result is that many textbook phenomena from cognitive psychology occur readily in happy moods, but are inhibited in sad moods.

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智能代理的情感引导：情绪如何控制认知

情绪和情绪的颜色认知。在本文中，我们概述了情绪如何影响人类代理的判断和认知表现。我们认为，情感影响不是由于情感反应本身，而是由于它们携带的价值信息，这对人工代理的创造者来说是一个潜在有用的发现。发生的影响类型取决于代理当时的关注点。例如，在做出评价性判断时，代理人可能会体验到作为对人或物体的积极态度的积极情感。但是，当代理专注于认知任务时，积极情绪可能就像绩效反馈一样，而积极情绪则为认知、关系过程开了绿灯。相比之下，负面情绪往往会抑制关系加工，从而导致更多的知觉、特定刺激的加工。