CLD 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Maladaptation, Eurocentrism, Joseph E. Ledoux
17 Sep 2018
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Well-being & emotions: emotions are the stuff of life jon elster (political theorist, considered disruptive, irrational- to portray emotions, emotions historically disregarded in psychology- considered not objective and unobservable. Features of emotional episodes: physiological concomitants (a) neurological; and (b) visceral, a subjective feeling, the expression of emotion. Discrete emotions theory; (2) cognitive perspectives; (3) structural developmental. Theory; (4) functionalist approaches; and, (5) sociocultural perspectives: some suggest emotions are completely culturally produced and not developmental, are there universal emotions or are emotions solely developed by the environment, by context? (p. 17) Izard (1977; 1993), tomkins (1982), and ekman (1984) proponents of such theories. Well-being and social justice: how is well-being related to social justice, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=qrzpw-9sjtq. Commonly this norm pathologizes non-heterosexual, non- cisgender, ableist/sanist, non-eurocentric/christian norms, ways of living. Well-being, development and health are used to encourage certain ways of living over others. Engage in intellectual humility - consider whether i disagree may actually mean i don"t understand (p. 7)
