PSY325H5 Lecture 7: Self and Emotion
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Pride* (authentic pride: based on specific achievements and competence. Hubris* (alpha pride/false pride: arrogance, egotism, pomposity. * = according to some researchers, these emotions are not just self-conscious in nature, but also self- evaluative in nature. Meaning, they all involve the organism to compare itself to some standard (self- evaluation). Basic emotions are : biologically based, shared with other animals. We can use animal models in order to understand how basic emotions are elicited, as well as the physiological, biological mechanisms involved in processing and producing basic emotions: panculturally experienced. We have a lot of research that suggest that basic emotions are universal. Ex: anger in one culture feels the same as anger in another culture: identifiable via discrete, universally recognized facial expressions. Regardless of where you were born, where you grew up, where you are living, we all tend to experience emotions the same way: located at the basic level of hierarchies of the emotion lexicon.
