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Motivational processes

Emotions are the product of emotional representations and arise from interactions between motives and other cognitive states. Motives represent world states to be achieved, prevented etc—a robot with proper motivational processes will have emotions.

Aaron Sloman and Monica Croucher, 1981.
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