3 papers
cs.AI2026
CAREBench: Evaluating LLMs' Emotion Understanding by Assessing Cognitive Appraisal Reasoning
Zhaoyue Sun, Hainiu Xu, Andero Uusberg +3
Emotion understanding is a core capability for LLMs to interact effectively with humans, yet existing evaluation paradigms rely on discrete emotion label prediction and fail to cap…
cs.HC2026
Haptically Experienced Animacy Facilitates Emotion Regulation: A Theory-Driven Investigation
Preeti Vyas, Bereket Guta, Tim G. Zhou +3
Emotion regulation (ER) is essential to mental well-being but often difficult to access, especially in high-intensity moments or for individuals with clinical vulnerabilities. Whil…
cs.CL2025
Assessing the Reliability and Validity of GPT-4 in Annotating Emotion Appraisal Ratings
Deniss Ruder, Andero Uusberg, Kairit Sirts
Appraisal theories suggest that emotions arise from subjective evaluations of events, referred to as appraisals. The taxonomy of appraisals is quite diverse, and they are usually g…