?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Urge+Theory+of+Emotion+and+Social+Interaction%3A+Chapter+6+and+7&rft.creator=Toda%2C+M.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=The+text+presented+here+consists+of+the+last+two+chapters+of+a+book+entitled+'The+Urge+Theory+of+Emotion+and+Social+Interaction%2C'+and+to+be+published+by+the+Cambridge+University+Press.+The+major+subject+discussed+in+the+book+is+the+urge+theory+developed+by+the+author%2C+in+which+the+human+'urge+system'+is+considered+as+the+basic+software+run+in+the+human+mind%2C+overseeing+such+mental+operations+as+cognition%2C+emotion+and+interpersonal+interaction.+This+human+urge+system+software+is+assumed+to+have+evolved+to+its+present+form+even+before+the+humans+ever+started+'artificial+evolution%2C'+or+the+evolution+of+elaborate+tools%2C+mental+as+well+as+material.+The+first+five+chapters+of+this+book+is+devoted+to+build+up+the+basic+framework+of+the+urge+theory%2C+and+also+to+demonstrate+how+human+activities%2C+both+private+and+social%2C+may+be+modelized+within+this+single+theoretical+framework.+The+last+two+chapters+presented+here+illustrate+how+the+same+line+of+thinking+may+be+applied+to+some+really+complicated+issues.+In+Chapter+6+is+given+a+model+of+human+cognitive+operations+including+imagination%2C+thinking%2C+and+the+use+of+language.+The+key+concept+used+there+is+that+of+'dynamic+schemas%2C'+the+schemas+that+operate+semi-autonomously%2C+often+accompanied+with+some+sensory+'images.'+This+chapter+also+deals+with+what+makes+the+humans+what+they+are%2C+the+beings+who+forever+keep+trying+to+cope+with+the+given+environment+in+an+active+fashion%2C+by+finding+problems+there+and+then+by+trying+to+solve+them+often+in+novel+ways.+In+Chapter+7+are+given+models+of+social+agents+such+as+artificial+coalitions+and+communities%2C+developed+on+the+basis+of+such+concepts+as+the+mean+and+the+variance+of+social+status+distribution+within+a+community.+Arguments+range+over+various+types+of+societies%2C+including+those+of+some+mammal+species%2C+those+in+the+Times+of+War%2C+and+the+contemporary+ones.+These+last+two+chapters+may+give+the+reader+some+ideas+about+what+the+author+purports+to+achieve+by+developing+the+urge+theory%2C+and+may+be+readable+even+without+the+knowledge+of+first+five+chapters.+A+brief+summary+of+some+basic+concepts+introduced+in+earlier+chapters+is+given+as+Appendix+at+the+end+of+Chapter+7.+The+texts+of+the+first+five+chapters%2C+each+of+which+still+needs+heavy+editing%2C+will+be+made+accessible+at+the+same+site+for+the+interested+reader+when+the+revised+versions+are+completed.&rft.date=1998-11&rft.type=Departmental+Technical+Report&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F777%2F3%2FC6_7.pdf&rft.identifier=++Toda%2C+M.++(1998)+The+Urge+Theory+of+Emotion+and+Social+Interaction%3A+Chapter+6+and+7.++%5BDepartmental+Technical+Report%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F777%2F