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Emotions are cognitive evaluations

Emotions are determined by the structure, content and organisation of knowledge representations and the processes operating on them. A machine equipped with the correct knowledge handling mechanisms, resulting in appropriate behaviour, has emotions.

Andrew Ortony, G. Clure and A. Collins, 1988.
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