L33 Psych 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Dark Triad, Machiavellianism, Psychopathy
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Integral to understanding emotion likely to find something funny) Influencing our emotions: motives, action tendencies, they move us to make some changes (i. e. fight or flight tendency) They surgically removed it: damasio"s descartes" error eliot was developing a lot of headaches. He had but he was having social emotional problems. He couldn"t come up with how to organize, no impulse that drives our same questions every single day. The part of his brain affected was the emotional triggers. How do we study emotion in the field: describe emotional experiences, outline relationships between different emotions, studied the implications of the emotional experience of happiness. Categorical approach: primary emotions are key (basic emotion that every individual across cultures will have, distinct facial expressions that correspond to these emotions, they motivate people to take specific actions. The primary emotional categories: anger, fear, disgust, surprise, joy, sadness.