Affect Control Theory: Math Model Index

Math Model

Affect Control Theory's Mathematical Model
With a List of Testable Hypotheses.
A Working Paper for ACT Researchers.

David R. Heise, Indiana University

February 7, 1992. Revised and posted on the World Wide Web, April 15, 1997.

This document collates mathematical derivations in various ACT publications into the unified mathematical model that drives ACT's computer simulation program, Interact. Additionally, this document scrutinizes some peculiarities of the model through mathematical and numerical analyses. Numerical analyses of a simplification help provide a feel for how the model works. Formal analyses of the logic of attribution are included: these are not incorporated into Interact yet. Finally, propositions from the text of the document have been assembled into a list of testable hypotheses to guide experimentation related to the theory.

A spreadsheet implementation of impression-formation and of the behavior solution is available as an Excel-2003 file.

Event Likelihood.
Event Construction: Optimal Behavior.
Labeling Processes. Incorporating Settings.
Emotion.
Trait Attribution and Its Logic. Logic of Person Construction.
Surmising Character: Emotions and Reidentification.
Exegesis of Instabilities in the Solution.
Numerical Examples.
References.
Hypotheses to Test.

$1 Likelihood$ $2 Behavior$ $3 Labeling$ $4 Emotion$ $5 Attribution$ $6 Surmising$ $7 Exegesis$ $8 Examples$ $9 References$ $10 Hypotheses$

Affect Control Theory's Mathematical Model With a List of Testable Hypotheses. A Working Paper for ACT Researchers.

David R. Heise, Indiana University

February 7, 1992. Revised and posted on the World Wide Web, April 15, 1997.

Affect Control Theory's Mathematical Model
With a List of Testable Hypotheses.
A Working Paper for ACT Researchers.