@inproceedings{afdb295f9e164ab3ae3e61358c979cfe,
title = "Tough Love: The influence of an agent's negative affect on students' learning",
abstract = "In this paper we explored the relationship between learning gains and affective displays of an animated pedagogical agent. Students read information on the topic of computer literacy while receiving either positive or negative affective responses from an on-screen animated agent. Analyses revealed that only students with low prior knowledge were influenced by the emotion displayed by the animated agent. We discuss the generalizability of our findings to other domains and the implications of these results on intelligent tutoring systems that are emotionally intelligent.",
keywords = "Affect, Animated agents, Emotion, Prior knowledge",
author = "Jeremiah Sullins and Craig, {Scotty D.} and Graesser, {Arthur C.}",
year = "2009",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-60750-028-5-677",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781607500285",
series = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications",
publisher = "IOS Press",
number = "1",
pages = "677--679",
booktitle = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications",
edition = "1",
}