PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Emotion Recognition, Display Rules, Dieting
21 Feb 2018
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Chapter 11 overview: what is emotion, how do emotions occur, feelings are functional, motivation, drive reduction & hunger, need to belong, need for esteem, self-actualization. Emotion is a response involving: physiological arousal, expressive behavior, mental experience. Secondary emotions: secondary emotions unique combinations of our primary emotions make up the broad landscape that is human emotion. Expressive behaviour: display rules guidelines for how and when to express emotions; influenced by gender, culture, personality, situations, nonverbal leakage our emotions often spillover into our nonverbal language, making it difficult to hide our emotions. Approach- the goal is to pursue a desired outcome. Avoidance- the goal is to avoid a negative consequence. Can emotion influence thought: schwarz & clore"s (1984) found that current feelings influence judgments of self and others. Feelings are functional: emotions: specific, intense, have a target, mood: general, diffuse, transferable, positive mood all is well broaden and build , negative mood situation is problematic attend and defend .
