PSYC3032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Emotions, Logical Reasoning, Hypoesthesia
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Fundamental, pervasive drive: universal, underlies much cognition, emotion, behaviour, mental and physical health outcomes. Idea is not new but is sort of in the background. Sex is a want; belonging is a need - see consequences in suffering from rejection. Original basic hypothesis: need to belong is universal, powerful motivation, rejection thwarts that need, hence rejection (or social exclusion) will cause emotional distress, emotion will cause behavioural effects, thus, rejection --> emotion --> behaviour. Background: early experiments: plenty of behavioural effects (behaviour happened without emotion mediating it, emotion was hard to find, could be delayed, regardless, behaviour occurs without emotion, raises question of inner processes. Increased aggression: rejected people become aggressive, toward new person who insults them, toward new person who doesn"t insult them (!) I(cid:374)teresti(cid:374)g aggressio(cid:374) (cid:449)ithout provocation: not toward new person who praises them. Increase in aggression is not the result of anger, frustration, or other emotion.
