Other-Condemning Anger = Blaming Accountable Agents for Unattainable Desires

This paper focuses on the other-condemning anger emotion which is a social type of anger triggered by the behaviour of other agents. Other-condemning anger responds to frustration of committed goals by others, and motivates goal-congruent behavior towards the blameworthy agents. Understanding this type of anger is crucial for modelling human behavior in social settings as well as designing socially aware artificial systems. We summarize some existing psychological theories on other-condemning anger and advocate building logical frameworks to formally specify this emotion. We believe that a formalization should provide a precise conceptualization and characterization of other-condemning anger in terms of social and cognitive concepts such as beliefs, goals, intentions, controllability, accountability, and blameworthiness.