PSYC18H3 Lecture : LEC 4 ÔÇô C18.docx
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Culture = objective (explicit) [eg. clothes, food, art] and subjective (implicit) [eg. Culture = objective (explicit) [eg. clothes, food, art] and subjective (implicit) [eg. ideas, theories, psych processes elements] Diff culture diff beliefs on emotion. Social construction: everything is a product of culture (ideas shape our creations) Psych process: etics universal across cultures basic 6 emotions, emics specific across cultures diff objects diff emotions, display rule diff expression for same emotion, emotions: diff antecedents, intensity, expression. Western attitude toward emotions (oatley) implicit ambivalent attitude (we"re unaware of it and we don"t know which one to follow) John locke mistakes come from emotions are easiest to approach british enlightenment reason/science > emotion. Rousseau no knowledge w/out emotion german romantic tradiation emotion > reason. Problem: all industrialized nations (tainted by contact w/ west) Problem: spontaneous expression expressing w/out feeling it may be different. Exp3: american and japanese solved for spontaneous expression (secret videotaping) 6 basic consistency.
