SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Selective Perception, Puritans
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Evolutionary theory surviving and reproducing: why do we have more negative primary emotions than positive, turner argues that there are more negative emotions because, for one, humans evolved from apes, negative emotions created social. Turner maintains that shame, guilt and alienation are a mixture of the three negative primary emotions sadness, fear, anger he terms second-order elaborations". Your alienation is your problem, not a problem of society . The emotion is avoided because it is a self-reflection, repressing this anger can sometimes lead to externalization, pushing it out and placing it onto a weaker party. Understanding these emotions as a social problem, rather than mental health issue. Defense mechanisms 2 levels of repression: defense strategies, secondary defense mechanisms, interpersonal and cognitive strategies to protect themselves. Man gets rejected and thinks that she is just i. e. playing hard to get : disavowals: questioning the creditability or the importance of the others who"ve aroused ive emotions.
