PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Facial Expression, Phenotype, Individualism
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Compare contrast: evolutionary vs. culture aspect of emotion: ns can change anatomical and psychological aspect over time. Ns happens when: within-species competition (food, territory, mate), within-species differences (individual difference in terms of physical, anatomical, behavioral, emotion. They are actions that helped our ancestors survive. They coincided with emotions our ancestors felt. Functional by reducing the risk of actually doing the action. Ex: crying (cid:0) bio function of protecting the eyes from dust, smoke. Disgust (cid:0) the facial actions that go with the feeling of disgust are socially useful of communicating the message that something is danger/unpleasant. In the past, action that went with disgust were vomiting. In the chimps, it was grooming, about social bonding. Now it"s evolved to contain more socially complex message: evolution and culture. E. g. , language (emotional goal assist cultural changes) Culture controls primitive urges. (certain institutions encourage impulses such as kindness. ) Undeniably, emotions are evolutionarily significant -(cid:0) supports evolutionary perspective.
