PSYC 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paul Ekman, Functional Response, Bes
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Universal or cultural variations? social structure more but smaller facial muscles, allows more subtle movements all of these small movements of the face are part of communication. Better explanations of why we have emotions and what they do. Eg disgust, the act of ejecting something from your mouth because it is harmful and had been generalized to things that are disgusting. Began refuting darwin- believed basic emotions not universally but culturally determined, set out to have a career to show how emotional expression is based on cultural norms and socialization. Core affect: a neurophysiologic state that is consciously accessible as a simple, non reflexive feeling that is an integral blend of hedonic (pleasure-displeasure) and arousal (sleepy to activated) values. Emotions will fall into one of the quadrants arousal vs. valence activation vs. pleasure activation unpleasant. Lang used picture response to determine where different emotions would fall on the vectors, if it evoked a pleasant or unpleasant emotion, and the arousalbility.