PSY 202 Lecture 3: PSY202 Week 3
12 Mar 2018
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Emotions are loosely coordinated changes in experiential (wanting to run away), behavioral (running away), and physiological (changes in heart rate, sweating) response system (might want to run away, but have no increased heart rate) Emotions typically have objects, and play out over the course of seconds or minutes. Humans experiences a small number of distinct emotions that can combine in complex ways. Emotional expressions may be the by-products if innate motor programs. Primary emotions (ekman) cross culturally universal emotions: happiness, disgust, sadness, fear, surprise, contempt, anger, secondary emotions: hatred, alarm, jealousy. Emotions might be experienced the same way across cultures, but expressed differently. Japanese and westerns watched a disgusting movie all showed disgust, but when a researcher came in, japanese hid disgust, westerns did not. Emotions are products of thinking, not innate motor programs. There are as many different kinds of emotions as thoughts, there are no discrete emotions.
