12/12/24: A discussion with Amitai Shenhav on The Affective Gradient Hypothesis (AGH)

We discuss with Professor Amitai Shenhav his recent proposal that places affect at the foundation of value-based decision making, motivation, and cognitive control (see his paper here). Our conversation touches on many questions about the computations of emotion and decision-making, including how AGH relates to reinforcement learning, how this theory compares to other computationally-based models of emotion, where values come from, intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards, how to measure emotion, among others. The group of discussants included Professor Kristen Lindquist (Ohio State University), Associate Professor Eran Eldar (Hebrew University), Assistant Professor Hanna Keren (Bar-Ilan University), and Assitant Professor Peter Hitchcock (Emory University). See all their lab pages for their important recent publications on the science of emotion.