PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Emotional Expression, Duration Neglect, Anchoring
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Emotions = brief, specific, responses to challenges or opportunities that are important to our goals, especially our social goals. Appraisal process = component of emotion; patterns of construal for evaluating events and objects in the environment based on their relation to current goals. Action tendencies > fifth component of emotion. Principle of serviceable associated habits > the expressions of human emotion we observe today come from actions that proved useful in our evolutionary past. 2. bc humans share an evolutionary history w other mammals, most recently primates, our emotionally expressive behaviours should resemble those of other species. 3. blind individuals will still show expressions similar to sighted ppl. People form cultures that differ in religion, political structure, economic development, and independence vs interdependence agree a great deal in how they label picture depicting happiness , surprise, anger sadness, disgust, and fear. Chimps show threat displays and emit whimpers that are remarkably similar to our own.
