PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mirror Neuron, Amygdala, Display Rules

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

There are few conditions that are inherently and universally stressful; we can often choose our appraisal and our responses. The exceptions are extreme, chronic physical threats or challenges (such as noise or starvation: universality hypothesis: emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone; originally proposed by darwin. People (even those who have never seen a human face) are generally good at judging and creating the same facial expressions. There are six universal emotions expressed: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. Humans all over the globe generally agree that these six faces are displaying anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. People find it difficult to identify other people"s emotions when they are unable to make facial expressions of our own botox. Aided by ability to experience emotions of one"s own (impaired if amygdala damage: we can control (at least to some degree) our expression of emotion. Display rules: norms for the control of emotional expression.