SESP Faculty

Andrew Ortony

Faculty Profile

Andrew Ortony is a professor emeritus of education, psychology and computer science. He is a cognitive scientist whose three primary research areas are (1) emotion, especially the relation between emotion, cognition, behavior and personality, (2) computational social cognition and (3) metaphor, especially the relation between knowledge representation and the processes involved in the production and comprehension of metaphors. Ancillary interests include implications of emotion research for Artificial Intelligence and for interface design. His books include The Cognitive Structure of Emotions and a landmark edited volume, Metaphor and Thought. Ortony serves or has served on the editorial boards of Cognition & Emotion, Emotion Review, Computational Intelligence, Discourse Processes, Instructional Science, The Journal of the Learning Sciences and Metaphor and Symbol. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society, and a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society, and the International Society for Research on Emotion.

Emotion and cognition; knowledge representation and figurative language comprehension; human-computer interaction and interface design.

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Ortony, A., Revelle, W. & Zinbarg, R. (2007). Why Emotional Intelligence needs a fluid component in Matthews, G., Zeidner, M. & Roberts, R.D., The science of Emotional Intelligence. Oxford University Press.

Norman, D. A. & Ortony, A. (2006). Designers and users: Two perspectives on emotion and design in S. Bagnara & G. Crampton Smith, Theories and practice in interaction design Erlbaum.

Ortony, A., Norman, D. A. & Revelle, W. (2005). The role of affect and proto-affect in effective functioning. in Fellous, J-M & Arbib, M.A., Who needs emotions: The brain meets the machine. Oxford University Press.

Ortony, A. (2003). On making believable emotional agants believable in R. Trappl, P. Petta, & S. Payr, Emotions in humans and artifacts MIT Press.

Clore, G.L. & Ortony, A. (2000). Cognition in Emotion: Always, sometimes, or never? in L. Nadel, R. Lane, & G.L. Ahern, The cognitive neuroscience of emotion  Oxford University Press.

Ortony, A. & Turner, T.J. (1990). What’s basic about emotions?. Psychological review: 97, 315-331.

Ortony, A., Clore, G.L. & Collins, A. (1988). The cognitive structure of emotions. Cambridge University Press.

A. Ortony (1979). Metaphor and thought. Cambridge University Press.

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