Large language models (LLMs) reflect societal norms and biases, especially about gender. While biases stereotypes have been extensively researched in various NLP applications, there is a surprising gap for emotion analysis. However, gender are closely linked discourse. E.g., women often thought of as more empathetic, while men's anger socially accepted. To fill this gap, we present the first comprehensive study gendered attribution five state-of-the-art LLMs (open- closed-source). We...

Emotions are a central aspect of communication. Consequently, emotion analysis (EA) is rapidly growing field in natural language processing (NLP). However, there no consensus on scope, direction, or methods. In this paper, we conduct thorough review 154 relevant NLP publications from the last decade. Based review, address four different questions: (1) How EA tasks defined NLP? (2) What most prominent frameworks and which emotions modeled? (3) Is subjectivity considered terms demographics...

Emotions are an integral part of human cognition and they guide not only our understanding the world but also actions within it. As such, whether we soothe or flame emotion is inconsequential.Recent work in conversational AI has focused on responding empathetically to users, validating soothing their emotions without a real basis. This AI-aided emotional regulation can have negative consequences for users society, tending towards one-noted happiness defined as absence “negative” emotions. We...

Emotions play important epistemological and cognitive roles in our lives, revealing values guiding actions. Previous work has shown that LLMs display biases emotion attribution along gender lines. However, unlike gender, which says little about values, religion, as a socio-cultural system, prescribes set of beliefs for its followers. Religions, therefore, cultivate certain emotions. Moreover, these rules are explicitly laid out interpreted by religious leaders. Using attribution, we explore...

Emotions are an integral part of human cognition and they guide not only our understanding the world but also actions within it. As such, whether we soothe or flame emotion is inconsequential. Recent work in conversational AI has focused on responding empathetically to users, validating soothing their emotions without a real basis. This AI-aided emotional regulation can have negative consequences for users society, tending towards one-noted happiness defined as absence "negative" emotions....

Philosophy is still predominantly considered a theoretical discipline. In Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China, Christopher W. Gowans pushes back against this narrow conceptualization of philosophy by arguing that the ancient traditions it treats are best understood as self-cultivation philosophies, meaning programs transformation for improving lives human beings.The introduction explains defends concept philosophy. Gowans's careful account cross-cultural...

Abstract The emotion of anger has received overall negative treatment in recent moral philosophy. This article explores the gendered representations Lienüzhuan 《列女傳》 Liu Xiang 劉向 (77–6 BCE ). It begins with a brief account semantic field and its representation , focusing on three important patterns. Perhaps most is didactic role anger; how female teachers use it (or avoid it) instructing male sons, husbands rulers. Second women’s distinct strategies for addressing effects being object...

Abstract This paper explores the ways in which Cordwainer Smith’s short story “Under Old Earth” problematizes emotions, who/what has them, and is granted moral status. Most importantly, however, questions primacy of happiness human society, especially where understood as absence other (negative) emotions. As such, challenges notion, widely held contemporary ethics, that our obligation to one another mediated through goal attainment happiness. Through this challenge, speaks directly current...