dislike
Enable an agent to recognise, record and respond proportionately to a person's aversion or antipathy without treating it as a prohibition, diagnosis or objective property of its target.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
6 bundles · 11 layers · 17 findings · 27 questions
Target and affective boundary Establish whose dislike is represented, what it concerns and whether the evidence supports aversion.
Person and target
Locate the feeling in a person and identify its target at the supported granularity.
Disliked aspect
Record the target and the particular feature, behaviour or encounter involved without expanding the attribution.
- Whose dislike is being described, and what precisely is its target? definition
- Does the person dislike the target generally, one aspect of it or a particular encounter with it? boundary
Negative feeling boundaries
Separate dislike from neighbouring feelings, judgments and preference relations.
Aversion versus other negativity
Require support for aversion or antipathy while allowing other feelings or judgments to coexist.
- What supports calling this dislike rather than indifference, disappointment or a lower comparative preference? boundary
- Are fear, disgust, hatred or disagreement also reported, and should they be represented separately? boundary
Felt strength and persistence Represent how strongly dislike is experienced and how far it extends over time.
Felt intensity
Capture intensity in the person's own terms or on an explicitly described scale.
Intensity with anchors
Keep a person's intensity report distinct from the loudness or visibility of its expression.
- How strongly does the person report disliking the target, and what do the rating or descriptive terms mean to them? measurement
- Is the intensity directly reported or inferred from an expression such as criticism, silence or avoidance? provenance
Duration and revision
Distinguish episodes, recurring reactions and continuing dispositions while preserving updates.
Temporal applicability
Record when dislike was expressed and what supports its continued applicability.
- Is this dislike limited to a recent encounter, recurring under stated conditions or described as continuing? measurement
- What later affirmation, qualification or retraction changes how the record should be used? action
Context and reported basis Capture circumstances and explanations without inventing causes or generalising beyond the report.
Situational conditions
Identify when and where the person reports dislike and any stated exceptions.
Conditional dislike
Keep contextual limits and exceptions attached to the attribution.
- Under which circumstances does the person report disliking the target? definition
- Are there situations or versions of the target that the person accepts or enjoys? boundary
Reasons and triggers
Separate stated reasons, immediate triggers and explanations supplied by others.
Attributed explanation
Preserve who offered an explanation and avoid presenting it as a demonstrated cause.
- What reason or triggering experience, if any, does the person give for the dislike? provenance
- Which explanations come from the person, and which are interpretations by an observer or agent? provenance
Expression and evidence Represent how dislike became known and how confidently it can be attributed.
Reported and observed signals
Preserve the original report or observable act separately from its interpretation.
Signal meaning
Treat a negative reaction or 'dislike' button as an observed signal whose intended meaning requires context.
- What statement, report or observable reaction supports the attribution, and when was it obtained? provenance
- Could the signal indicate disagreement, irrelevance, humour or another meaning instead of felt aversion? boundary
Ambiguity and correction
Handle uncertain or conflicting indications without claiming privileged access to a person's feelings.
Qualified attribution
Make uncertainty, disagreement and the person's corrections visible in the record.
- Does the person affirm, reject or qualify the attribution of dislike? provenance
- What clarification is needed before using an uncertain attribution to alter recommendations or interactions? action
Accommodation and action boundaries Connect dislike to requested responses while keeping feeling, choice and permission distinct.
Preferred response
Identify whether and how the person wants their dislike accommodated.
Accommodation request
Link concrete preferences for alternatives, reduced exposure or unchanged participation to the person's request.
- Does the person want an alternative, less exposure, an opportunity to discuss the dislike or no change? action
- How broadly and for how long should the requested accommodation apply? action
Feeling versus authorisation
Prevent dislike from substituting for explicit decisions or permission affecting others.
Independent action authority
Record refusals, disclosure permissions and consequential action requests separately from the feeling.
- Has the person actually refused or set a boundary, or only expressed dislike? boundary
- What explicit request or applicable authority permits sharing this dislike or taking action that affects another person? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of dislike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of dislike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of dislike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Typical measurements
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of dislike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of dislike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of dislike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of dislike this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.feeling
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Facets: substance
- mental
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- disinclination, unfriendliness, alienation, disaffection, estrangement, antipathy, aversion, distaste, disapproval, contempt, disdain, scorn
What it is Filled
Dislike is a negatively valenced feeling or attitude of aversion or antipathy toward a particular person, object, activity, or idea, which may motivate avoidance without necessarily involving disgust, anger, or hatred.
In scope
- The person experiencing dislike and the specific target or aspect disliked
- Dislike experienced in a particular situation or reported as a continuing disposition
- Intensity, persistence and changes in dislike
- Self-reported reasons, expressions and uncertain behavioural indications
- Accommodation preferences and explicitly authorised responses
Out of scope
- Properties or quality assessments of the disliked target independent of the person's feeling
- Fear, disgust, hatred and contempt as separately modelled experiences
- Moral judgments, beliefs and ideological disagreement apart from accompanying dislike
- Consent, refusal and enforceable boundaries as independent decisions
- Discriminatory conduct, harassment and interpersonal conflict as actions or relationships
- Clinical conditions and their diagnosis or treatment
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to recognise, record and respond proportionately to a person's aversion or antipathy without treating it as a prohibition, diagnosis or objective property of its target.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Dislike requires evidence of aversion or antipathy; indifference or lack of enthusiasm alone does not establish it.
- Ranking one option below another does not establish dislike of the lower-ranked option.
- Disagreement concerns a proposition or judgment; record dislike separately only when aversion toward an identifiable target is also supported.
- Avoidance may indicate dislike, but practical constraints, fear or other explanations must remain possible unless clarified.
- A report of dislike does not by itself establish disgust, hatred, refusal or withdrawal of consent.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Infer a person's dislikes from private data and use them against them.
- Amplify dislike of groups into contempt or hatred.
- Disclose a person's dislike of someone to that person or others without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Using recorded dislikes in decisions about a person, such as matching or ranking.
May
- Recognize and report a user's stated dislikes to tailor help they have asked for.
- Explain the psychology of dislike and how it differs from hatred or disgust.
Moral aspects Filled
- Dislike of people can grow into prejudice when it attaches to groups.
Who is affected
- People who express dislike
- People who are disliked
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; each person holds their own feelings.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-00026390-n - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.dislike
- Open English WordNet: oewn-07516784-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Experiencing person: Reference to the person whose feeling is being recorded
- Target and disliked aspect: Target reference plus specified aspect, such as taste, conduct, style or interaction
- Intensity: Person-reported rating with recorded scale and anchors; unknown when unreported
- Temporal form: Current episode; recurring in specified circumstances; reported continuing disposition; unclear
- Applicable context: Situations, activities, settings or conditions in which the dislike is reported
- Evidence basis: Direct self-report; attributed report; observed expression; behavioural inference; disputed
- Reported basis: Person's stated reason or trigger; unstated; unknown; disputed attribution
- Current record status: Currently affirmed; historical; revised; retracted; current applicability unknown
- Requested accommodation: Explicit request linked to the dislike, or no request recorded
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Dislike is an internal feeling or attitude that cannot be reliably identified from visual appearance alone.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Ask the person to clarify the target, disliked aspect and circumstances.
- Record self-reported dislike while marking inferred dislike as uncertain.
- Offer alternatives or reduce unwanted recommendations within the person's stated preferences.
- Distinguish expressions of dislike from refusals, boundaries and requests for action.
- Revisit, correct or retire a dislike record when the person updates it.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Prejudice when dislike is generalized to groups.
- Manipulation through profiling of preferences.
Standards and interfaces not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
No generally applicable standard, law or official classification governs dislike as an everyday feeling or attitude.
Context of use required Filled
- Dislike occurs in everyday preferences, relationships and responses to activities, objects or ideas.
- Recognising a person's expressed dislike helps guide recommendations, communication and choices without assuming that the feeling is permanent or constitutes a prohibition.
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-07516784-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: dislike - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Which researched distinctions between dislike, aversion, antipathy, disgust and hatred are useful across languages without forcing a universal intensity hierarchy?
- Which intensity measures, if any, support reliable comparison across time, targets or people, and what limits must accompany them?
- What evidence is sufficient to represent dislike as a continuing disposition rather than a contextual episode?
- How should mixed liking and disliking of the same target be represented without collapsing ambivalence into a single score?
- What retention and disclosure practices should apply when dislike records reveal sensitive interpersonal judgments?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-dislike/spec.json