APSY2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Natural Selection, Libido
5 Apr 2016
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Life scripts, life stories: integrated life stories. Afects and not drives are the primary motivators of human behavior. Sex drive in and of itself is not strong enough to drive behavior. But sex moves the person to act in a sexual manner when excited or emotional. 10 primary afects each rooted in human biology. Links each afect of the muscles of the face. Natural selection has favored the ones who are diferential and strongly portray their emotions. Innate afect responses promote life and resist death from an evolutionary perspective. As humans we seek to maximize positive emotions and minimize the negative emotional experiences. Studies show that this is cross cultural and they all come to a consensus around the meaning of diferent facial expressions. Evidence to suggest these fundamental emotions apply culturally. Display roles tend to difer across cultures: each culture determines a diferent level of appropriateness of showing emotions, ex.
