PSYC18H3 Lecture : Chapter 3 Notes.docx
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In the romantic era emotions came to be valued in personal life, in politics, in literature, and in philosophy. By 1800 romanticism had become firmly part of western culture, more or less inseparable from ideas of individual freedom. It inspired poets, novelists, dramatists, painters, and musicians, who saw it as their mission to express their emotions through art and to move readers, audiences, viewers, and listeners to emotional experiences. In the romantic movement, we see core beliefs about human nature, and about emotions as original, primordial, authentic causes of behavior, that are alive today. Emotions are powerful forces, often at odds with more deliberate, rational thought embodied in science and codified in cultural conventions. The elements of a cultural approach to emotion. That theme is that values, concepts, and ideas about the self, as expressed in art forms, rituals, social practices and institutions, shape how members of particular societies experience emotion, and that these matters are not universal.
