Fair or Foul? How LLMs ‘Appraise’ Emotions
Most AI conversations equate “emotional intelligence” with sentiment labels. Humans don’t work that way. We appraise situations—Was it fair? Could I control it? How much effort will this take?—and then feel. This study puts that lens on large language models and asks a sharper question: Do LLMs reason about emotions through cognitive appraisals, and are those appraisals human‑plausible? What CoRE Actually Measures (and Why It’s Different) CoRE — Cognitive Reasoning for Emotions evaluates seven LLMs across: ...