---
title: "Why Robots Will Have Emotions"
authors:
  - "Aaron Sloman"
  - "Monica Croucher"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/40"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0040.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "197-201"
track: "Cognitive Science"
keywords:
---

# Why Robots Will Have Emotions

Aaron Sloman, Monica Croucher

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 197-201.

## Abstract

Emotions involve complex processes produced by interactions between motives, beliefs, percepts, etc. E.g. real or imagined fulfilment or violation of a motive, or triggering of a 'motive-generator', can disturb processes produced by other motives. To understand emotions, therefore, we need to understand motives and the types of processes they can produce. This leads to a study of the global architecture of a mind. Some constraints on the evolution of minds are disussed. Types of motives and the processes they generate are sketched.