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We seem to be entering an era of enhanced digital connectivity. Computers and the Internet have become so embedded in the daily fabric of people’s lives that they simply cannot live without them

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Abstract: This paper is based on an alternative to standard ‘rational choice’ ’ assumptions in economics, which assert that the human mind is isomorphic with a utility function and the firm with a technological cost function, expressed over a range of real numbers. The alternative is based on discrete mathematics and computational psychology. The mathematical architecture is an extension and elaboration of ACT-R (Anderson 1993, Anderson & Lebiere 1998), a leading computer-based model in experimental cognitive psychology. Mathematically, this is a two level architecture with a ‘symbolic ’ level of structures and expressions in discrete logic, and a ‘subsymbolic ’ or statistical level which selects which structures or productions at the ‘symbolic’ level are activated. The technique involves the construction of sets and relations representing human behavior and the physical environment, together with appropriate index sets, to express a discrete mathematics of both ‘choice ’ and ‘production’. On the ‘choice ’ side, this enables discrete modeling of varieties of emotional and sensational appraisals complemented by cognition, corresponding to a variety of results in both experimental psychology and experimental economics. On the ‘production ’ side, economic organization is expressed in discrete form as (1) classes of instrumental, or technical, economies, (2) logic-based institutional

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Four major theoretical perspectives on emotion in psychology are described. Examples of the ways in which research on emotion and speech utilize aspects of the various perspectives are presented and a plea is made for students of emotion and speech to consider more self-consciously the place of their research within each of the perspectives.