PSYC21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Emotions, Multiple Choice, Display Rules
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Attachment conceptualized as how we regulate our emotions. What aspects of emotion are important for social development. How we learn to express, understand and regulate emotions. Emotional expressions are innate and universal, rooted in human evolution and based on anatomical structures. Face gets a lot of attention because you can differentiate emotions depending on the muscles on the face that are activated. Because everybody recognizes those facial expressions everyone knows what you are talking about universal. Useful for explaining individual differences in emotional expression. Variations seen in the way ppl express their emotions. Parents behaviours reinforce how often an infant will show or express these emotions e. g. parenting style that will show how often a child will be happy etc. Purpose of emotions is to help ppl achieve their social and survival goals. Emotions have signals which makes the functional.
