PSYC 106 Lecture 6: Emotions

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 106
• Professor: Sherrie Atwood

Document Summary

Psr is more about how involved and transported the viewer is. Psi is how much you engage w person or show. Pre-recorded lec talks about mental scripts and continuity. Subjective - talk about yourself if its your perspective. Pick a media figure, talk about how you started liking media figure, how it went, where you are now. Can put it in boxes if using word doc, or label stage 1 . Parasocial interaction (psi"s) = activity that takes place during the act of media use. We feel like we know the media figure as members of a virtual social network (giles,2010) This sense of spending a lot of time with this figure and feeling like you know something about them. Pleasure = a hedonic motivation (pleasure + diversion) + eudaimonic (meaning + Bartsch (2012): psychosocial needs: fun, thrill, empathic sadness, contemplative emotional experiences, emotional engagement with characters, social sharing of emotions, and vicarious release of emotions.