PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Elizabeth Gilbert, Eustress, Humpy
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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, And you are slave to your emotions. elizabeth gilbert. Emotions comprised by thoughts & physiological sensations/experiences: reduced to processes. If we have insight into these processes know how to manipulate them. Understanding of positive emotions undeveloped until recently. Emotions evolved as fast, highly-reactive, in response to specific/acute envt demands. Eckman: short-duration, last sec (spike: pressure spikes if dominated by (-) emotions, fn for survival. Interconnected aspects of emotion: physiological, cognitive, motivational, perception/attention. Emotions can be recalled when you recall a memory affect duration, duration of onset stage, After stress or eustress have passed, mental exhausted: but less physiological burnout from eustress since framed the situation (+)vely. Study by frederickson on adaptiveness of emotions: why are some ppl"s emotional response longer or stronger than others, ex. Later onset, lower amplitude, quick return to baseline: preferable: stress hardiness = resilience.
