CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Walter Bradford Cannon, Joseph E. Ledoux, Emotional Expression
11 Oct 2018
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Emotional experience: the feeling machine: the essential feature of all emotions is the experience. This technique can be used to generate a map of the emotional landscape. Basically, involves changing the way one thinks about an object or event. Defining attribute of emotional experiences is what these experiences feel like. An humanistic psychologist would focus on the role of emotional experience in an individual"s self-actualization. Two-factor theory asserts that patterns of physiological activity are general and undifferentiated and people are not always sensitive to these pattern responses. James-lange theory depends on people"s ability to detect physiological changes. Damage to amygdala results in deficit processing: facial expression of negative emotions related to threat or danger. Anger produces a larger increase in finger temperature than does fear. Fear and disgust produce more sweating than do sadness or anger. Changing something from negative to a positive event: reappraisal.
