PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Autonomic Nervous System, Thalamus, Tantrum
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Extrovert reaction and inhibition builds up fast and goes down slow: behavioural: extrovert respond do reward, introvert respond to fear of punishment, power: perceive oneself as weak or strong in situation, weak -> fear, strong -> frustration/anger. The ways that emotions are embodied in a culture s social practices, including its language, participates in and partially constitutes the moral order of the culture and serves to maintain it. Averill sees emotions as a special kind of social role . Emotions are a socially constructed syndrome that includes an individual s appraisal of the situation which is interpreted as a passion rather than as an action: we should think of emotions as actions because we perform them. In other words, we play a role in emotional episodes. E. g. there can be a performance aspect (aside from spontaneous aspect) of emotion like when a kid throws a temper tantrum when parents do not buy candy for them.
