PSY-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Emotion Classification, Emotion Recognition
27 Jan 2017
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Immediate, specific positive or negative psychological state in response to environmental events or internal thoughts. Can be distinguished from mood, a diffuse, long-lasting emotional state. Basic emotions: anger, fear, disgust, surprise, sadness, happiness. Paul ekman: emotional expressions are socially learned, (but if they"re social, they should differ from culture to culture, especially if the two cultures have not contacted each other) However, cross cultures people can define similar emotions even if they"ve not been exposed to each other before. Some psychologists argue that basic emotions are universal. Most are universally represented in words across different languages. The idea of universality is challenged by. Cross-cultural and gender differences in display rules(japanese people under implicit culture) Two-factor theory of emotion: the experience of emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and a cognitive interpretation of that arousal (we use contexts to interpret one physiological arousal) Some types of physiological arousal are ambiguous.
