Other-Condemning Anger = Blaming Accountable Agents for Frustrated Intentions

Mehdi Dastani (1) , Emiliano Lorini (2, 3) , John-Jules Meyer (1) , Alexander Pankov (1)

1 Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht]
2 IRIT-LILaC - Logique, Interaction, Langue et Calcul
3 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

This paper focuses on the other-condemning anger emotion whichis a social type of anger triggered by the behaviour of other agents. Other-condemning anger responds to frustration of committed goalsby others, and motivates goal-congruent behavior towards the blame-worthy agents. Understanding this type of anger is crucial formodelling human behavior in social settings as well as design-ing socially aware artificial systems. We summarize some exist-ing psychological theories on other-condemning anger and advo-cate building logical frameworks to formally specify this emotion.We believe that a formalization should provide a precise conceptu-alization and characterization of other-condemning anger in termsof social and cognitive concepts such as beliefs, goals, intentions,controllability, accountability, and blameworthiness.

Mots clés: Système multi-agents

Domaines: Logique en informatique [cs.LO]; Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Mehdi Dastani, Emiliano Lorini, John-Jules Meyer, Alexander Pankov. Other-Condemning Anger = Blaming Accountable Agents for Frustrated Intentions. 16th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017), IFAAMAS, May 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil. pp.1520-1522. ⟨hal-02871319⟩