PSYC18H3 Lecture 8: Detailed Lecture #8 Notes
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Week 10 lecture #8: thursday july 07, 2016. Today"s lecture: evolutionary vs. cultural perspectives on emotion. Do the same types of stimuli elicits the emotion in diff cul. Do ppl experience and describe their emotion the same way. On a genetic level (e. g. , ppl might be stronger and taller) E. g. , more adaptive to have blue eyes vs. brown eyes (for example) Moth survives more w/ being brown and having eyes, can camouflage better. Between more adaptive for pepper moth to be black later. B/c of industrialization, the trees were now black: emotional expressions are adaptations. They"re naturally selected for they are actions that helped our ancestors survive. Fear, eyes widen --> see more around you. Disgust, crinkled face --> closing nostrils passage, so pathogens can"t enter they coincided with emotions our ancestors felt. Argued that we don"t need these facial expressions anymore.
