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Andrew Ortony Coordinator, Master's Program in Learning Sciences, Learning Sciences Professor, Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Professor, Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Professor, Learning Sciences, Learning Sciences Annenberg Hall Room 110 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 467-3813 Fax: (847) 491-8999

Biography

Andrew Ortony is a professor of education, psychology, and computer science, and co-Director of Northwestern University's Center for the Study of Cognition, Emotion, and Emotional Disorders. He is a cognitive scientist whose two primary research areas are (1) emotion, especially, the relation between emotion, cognition, behavior, and personality, and (2) metaphor, especially, the relation between knowledge representation and the processes involved in the production and comprehension of metaphors. Ancillary interests include implications of emotion research for Artificial Intelligence and for interface design. His books include The Cognitive Structure of Emotions, and a landmark edited volume, Metaphor and Thought. Dr. Ortony serves or has served on the editorial boards of Cognition & Emotion, Computational Intelligence, Discourse Processes, Instructional Science, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, and Metaphor and Symbol. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, a charter fellow of the American Psychological Society, and a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society, and the International Society for Research on Emotion.

Websites

Personal page on Computer Science website

Research/Scholarship
Education

Year		Degree		Institution
1972		PhD, Computer Science		University of London
1966		MA, Philosophy		University of Edinburgh

Selected Publications

Ortony, A., Revelle, W. & Zinbarg, R. (2007). Why Emotional Intelligence needs a fluid component in Matthews, G., Zeidner, M. & Roberts, R.D., The science of Emotional Intelligence..

Norman, D. A. & Ortony, A. (2006). Designers and users: Two perspectives on emotion and design in S. Bagnara & G. Crampton Smith, Theories and practice in interaction design.

Ortony, A., Norman, D. A. & Revelle, W. (2005). The role of affect and proto-affect in effective functioning. in Fellous, J-M & Arbib, M.A., Who needs emotions: The brain meets the machine..

Ortony, A. (2003). On making believable emotional agants believable in R. Trappl, P. Petta, & S. Payr, Emotions in humans and artifacts.

Clore, G.L. & Ortony, A. (2000). Cognition in Emotion: Always, sometimes, or never? in L. Nadel, R. Lane, & G.L. Ahern, The cognitive neuroscience of emotion .

Ortony, A. & Turner, T.J. (1990). What's basic about emotions?. Psychological review: 97, 315-331.

Ortony, A., Clore, G.L. & Collins, A. (1988). The cognitive structure of emotions. Cambridge University Press.

A. Ortony (1979). Metaphor and thought. Cambridge University Press.

Selected Presentations

Andrew Ortony (2007). HUMAINE Workshop Keynote Speaker. Keynote Speaker, HUMAINE Workshop on Conceptualizing Emotions, Haifa, Israel.

Ortony, A. (2006). Invited colloquium speaker. Talk at the Center for Computational Intelligence, and to the Learning Sciences and Technology Academic Group, both of Nanyang Technological University. Singapore.

Ortony, A. (2006). Keynote Address. Address at an interdisciplinary Cognitive Systems Workshop for the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (analogous to US NSF). Singapore.

Ortony, A. (2005). Keynote address at ACII2005 (International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction). Beijing, China (People's Republic).

Ortony, A. (2005). Invited paper at the Biannual Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI). Haifa, Israel.

Ortony, A. (2005). Colloquium at the Department of Psychology, University of Athens. Athens, Greece.

Ortony, A. (2005). Public Lecture at the Einstein Forum. Potsdam, Germany.

Swarat, S., Ortony, A., & Daniels, B. What makes a topic interesting: An exploration of the underlying dimensions of topic interest. . Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

Andrew Ortony Colloquium. Colloquium, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

Other Research/Scholarship

I was the PI on two resubmissions to NIMH for a grant to continue the operations of our cross-school initiative, CEED. The reviews were quite positive, and the agency initial response to the second resubmission implied a high likelihood of funding (the priority score was 167). A subsequent cut of 1% to the NH budget, however, has dramatically reduced the prospect of funding so that the current status is that funding is still possible but “now very unlikely.”

Research Interests

Emotion and cognition; knowledge representation and figurative language comprehension; human-computer interaction and interface design.

Teaching/Advising
Courses

LRN_SCI 403

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Service/Recognition
Professional Service

Year		Organization		Position		Description
2006		Science and Engineering Research Council		International Advisor		A*STAR–Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
2006		Center for Computational Intelligence, and Learning Sciences and Technology Academic Group		Member		Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (colloquium)