PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Prefrontal Cortex, Limbic System, Positive Illusions
14 Apr 2015
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What are emotions: emotions frustration, refers to having a subjective feelings. (feelings anxious, scared, sad, You know what you"re feeling when you"re feeling: this is accompanied by bodily changes (heart beats fast when scared or you"re shaking, this is accompanied by action tendencies. Emotions: content vs. style: content of emotion what emotion someone experiences, style of emotion how that emotion is experienced. Pleasant emotions: happiness (most research on pleasant emotions focuses on happiness: happiness defined by, research on happiness, judgment that life is satisfying. Are they happy with their life: predominance of positive vs. negative emotion, part of being happy is to have positive illusions about the self, s-data and o-data): (a lot of this research is correlation) Or is their a third variable: happy people, are less abusive and hostile, are more helpful, creative, energetic, forgiving, trusting, report fewer diseases, report satisfying relationships, reciprocal causality.
