PSYC23H3 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 PSY.docx
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Basic emotions; we can indetify them through specific muscles that move in the face. Darwin stated that ellectricaly activated muscles in the faces reveal an expression. Universal, by this i mean they are discreet as well as biologically determined: differ in valence for example +valence: happiness valence: sad, fear, anger. Our expression and recognition of an emotion differ on two aspects: Individual chacteristics such as: self regulation(emotion inhibiton ) and age mediate the duration and frequency of an emotion experssion: culture characteristics: different culture display rules, frequency and duration of emotion also maybe bee appropriate or inappororiate. Different emotions carry different biological responses for example for fear we see an increase in heart rate, and a decrease in heart rate for disgust. For anger we see and increase in temp but in fear a decrease (cold) . Experiment: they were told to either relieve an emotion on mannulayy mimick it.