Intelligent behaviours have been traditionally considered exclusively as products of pure rationality processes. Considering other influential factors, such as emotions, has been accused of being "non scientific". However, pure rational processes fail when trying to explain most of human behaviours, in which emotion plays a key role. Nevertheless, emotional factors add an extra complexity to
... [Show full abstract] agent architectures, making them, hitherto, either few efficient or few reusable. This paper presents a context independent cognitive architecture for agents that combine emotions and rational- ity, named COGNITIVA, which bets on adaptivity as a weapon to fight against that complexity.