PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Emotional Expression
23 Nov 2017
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Shows up in our face -- emotions. Experience convey to info about fitness-relevant opportunities, threat in immediate environment. Represented in brain and the whole body. Something rewarding and good going on in the environment -- motivate approach toward whatever make one happy -- benefit from the rewarding thing. Powerful info that something in environment that pose threat -- e. g. threat, pathogen -- avoid -- helpful in minimizing the costly outcome. Refers to benefit from something in the future. Want to be in the same situation -- decided to approach similar situation -- benefit outcome and rewards -- fitness benefit. Evolved because both functions that help them to make decision at advantage. Motivate to do things in the future that decrease the potential of future rivals. Threat posed by rivals for mate" valued resources away from me -- jealousy -- Future decision-making to retain long-term access to mate"s resources. Serve functionally useful reactions to immediate circumstances.
