PSY331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Emotions, Conflicting Emotions, Hypervigilance
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Cultural influence on emotion: system of ideas and practices that are held in common in a particular society, nationality, ethnicity, social class, religion, gender. Methods for studying emotions in cultures: cross-cultural comparisons fmri to observe the ways, going to another culture and measuring it in some way and comparing it to your own culture, ethnographies. In depth descriptions of the social lives of a particular culture: historical approaches, e. g. People have looked about how children are taught about fear: over time de-emphasized fear, avoid arousing fear in children, but talk about being courageous. January 18, 2018: there are tons of variation in emotions amongst cultures. Independent/individualism: more seen in western countries/colonial countries, autonomous and independent, separate entity from other things father, mother, distinct and unique, dispositions and internal causes, making internal attributions about others, stable sense of self. Interdependent/collectivism: more seen in eastern and southern america, connected to others.
