PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Display Rules, Facial Expression, Emotion Classification
6 Nov 2018
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A key difference that distinguishes the actor-observer difference from the fundamental attributions error is that the actor-observer difference argues that people are more likely to: Responses to challengers or opportunities that are important to out goals. Appraisals -> physiological component -> expressive behaviour -> subjective feelings -> action tendencies. Interpretation of events and objects in our environment according to their relation to our current goals. Immediate sense of whether event is consistent or inconsistent with out goals. Transform initial pleasant or unpleasant feelings into more specific. Transform initial pleasant or unpleasant feelings into more specific emotions. Each component enable adaptive responses to threats and opportunities. If emotions are evolved adaptations, all humans should experience them similarly. Expressions of human emotion we observe today derive from actions that proved useful in our evolutionary past. Be observed even in those who cannot see. Can people from all cultures recognize the same facial expressions.
