http://hdl.handle.net/10366/4839 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:06:30 GMT 2026-04-21T06:06:30Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/138685 [EN]The affective revolution in Psychology has prod uced enough knowledge to impl ement abilities of emotional recognition and expression in robots. However, the em otional prototypes are still very basic, almost caricaturized ones. If the goal is constructing robots that respond flexibly, in order to fulfill market demands from different countries while respec ting the moral values implicit in the social behavior of their inhabitants, then these robots will have to be pr ogrammed attending to detailed descriptions of the emotional experiences that are considered relevant in the interaction context in which the robot is going to be put to work (e.g., assisting people with cognitive or motor disabilities). The advantages of this approach are illustrated with an empirical study on contempt, the seventh basic emotion in Ekman’s theory, and one of the “rediscovered” moral emotions in Haidt’s New Synthesis. A phenomenol ogical analysis of the experience of contempt in 48 Spanish subjects shows the structure and some vari ations –prejudiced, self- serving, and altruistic– of this em otion. Quantitative information was later obtained with the help of blind coders. Some spontaneous facial expressions that sometimes accompany self-reports are also shown. Finally, some future directions in the Robotic s-Psychology intersection are presented (e.g., gender differences in social behavior). Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/138685 2009-05-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/138684 [EN]The study of emotion abilities is of interest to Artificial Intelligence because identifying and responding approp riately to the affective states of humans is thought to make users more prone to interact with robots. However, cross - cultural differences in social communication are common. The CAD (Contempt, Anger, Disgust) hypothesis proposes that these three emotions are elicited by different violations of moral codes. Our exploratory study of texts from a corpus of Spanish contextualized words shows that both the emotion receiver and its perceived cause are different for these emotions: disgust takes as its object mos tly something concrete, anger is preferentially felt towards another person, and contempt towards an abstract object. In Spain, disgust was associated with prejudice, and anger with altruistic motives while contempt remained the most elusive of the triad. In Latin America, both disgust and contempt were associated with prejudice, while the altruistic function of anger failed to reach significance. Differences concerning the moral functions of anger and contempt corroborate that the cultural context in which emotions are expressed can change their moral meaning. The procedure is an ecologically valid one that can be of help for designing more realistic social robots Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/138684 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/126982 [ES]Los hallazgos encontrados por la psicología experimental relacionados con la marcha en las personas mayores y los riesgos de caídas y su prevención, no se han generalizado de forma sistemática al contexto de seguridad vial y por lo tanto no se han incorporado suficientemente a la investigación del comportamiento peatonal. Los estudios que unen las dos perspectivas son escasos, además de no reunir el rigor de medida y el control de variables que caracterizan a los estudios experimentales frente a los observacionales. Incorporar el paradigma de la doble tarea, propio del contexto experimental, al ámbito de la seguridad vial de las personas mayores, es el objetivo del trabajo. Además, pretendemos verificar el papel de la experiencia previa como conductores y del conocimiento de la normativa de tráfico en los protocolos educativos. Intentaremos conseguirlo mediante la creación de un simulador de cruce peatonal en todas sus condiciones (con semáforo y sin semáforo). En definitiva, se trata de establecer si el efecto de estímulos, tanto relacionados con el tráfico como no, interfiere de manera diferente en la conducta motora de cruce de calzada, dependiendo de la experiencia previa como conductores que tengan las personas. Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10366/126982 2015-11-30T00:00:00Z