Emotions in Argumentation: an Empirical Evaluation

However, humans are proved to question: What is the connection between the arguments proposed behave differently, mixing rational and emotional by the participants of a debate and their emotional attitudes to guide their actions, and it has been status? Such question breaks down into the following subquestions: claimed that there exists a strong connection between (1) is the polarity of arguments and the relations the argumentation process and the emotions among them correlated with the polarity of the detected emotions?, felt by people involved in such process. In this paper, and (2) what is the relation between the kind and the we assess this claim by means of an experiment: amount of arguments proposed in a debate, and the mental during several debates people's argumentation engagement detected among the participants of the debate? in plain English is connected and compared to the emotions automatically detected from the participants. To answer these questions, we propose an empirical evaluation Our results show a correspondence between of the connection between argumentation and emotions.