PSY331H1 Lecture 6: Regulation of Emotion (Part I)
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Facial feedback: facial feedback hypothesis, we are experiencing emotions that are consistent with the expression on our faces, modulating hypothesis, facial expressions influence intensity of felt emotion initiated by some stimulus, congruent expressions help intensify the felt emotion. i. e. if you are feeling very happy, and you have a wide smile it will make you happier; if you are feeling very happy but you are frowning it will make you less happy. Facial feedback measure: amplification suppression paradigm, exaggerate or conceal felt emotion, muscle to muscle instruction paradigm, directly manipulate individual"s face muscles, i. e. telling participants to contract muscles. Pain is very susceptible to facial feedback: laird (1974, participants were given slides of kkk members / children playing, to look at, iv: contracted specific facial muscles involved in smiling / frowning, the smiling participants were more happy when they saw the children playing, the frowning participants were more angry when they saw the kkk members.
