PSYC 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: John Bargh, Tachycardia, Replication Crisis
4 May 2019
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Book psychological self hood and agency by martin et. An agent can create something to happen: replication crisis: john bargh automaticity of being; most of human actions are automatic. We don"t have much choice in what we do at times, talking when we don"t want to or crying involuntarily. Prejudice is the attitude, discrimination is an action: emotion. Most of our actions are governed by emotion. We can"t control our emotion, we can"t use agency to control our emotions: physiological factors. When person has strong emotions, bodily changes occur. Strong bodily changes that occur due to emotion. Sympathetic generates extreme physical change and parasympathetic system calms us down. Anger, fear, excitement have similar physical changes. Emotional flooding: when your feelings are so strong you loose agency and mental cognition. Easy to tell when someone is feeling strong emotion, more difficult to be certain what emotion might be. Sometimes non-verbal behavior may cause emotional state.
