PSYC 2740 Lecture 14: PSYCH 2740 LECTURE CHP 13

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Accompanied by action tendencies ( ght or ight response) State: how we are feeling in the moment. Categories: can we somehow nd discrete types of emotions and put them together. can we meaningfully based on universal basic facial expressions. Dimensions: a continuum, degrees of good or bad moods, we are not always at one extreme or the other, we may be in the middle. Style: how that emotion is experienced (intensity, level) Predominance of positive vs. negative emotions (neutral) Social desirability - as part of being happy is to have positive illusions (views) about the self. Research on happiness with s & o data: happy people tend to be less abusive, hostile, they are more helpful, creative, energetic, forgiving, trusting, report fewer diseases and report satisfying relationships, they are also more optimistic. A lot of these things are correlational known as reciprocal.