Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Schadenfreude

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Emotions and the body: primary emotions, emotions considered to be universal and biologically based, generally include fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust, and contempt, secondary emotions, emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individuals and cultures. Functions of facial expressions: facial expressions reflect our internal feelings, but can also influence them, facial feedback: the process by which the facial muscles send messages to the, emotions help us communicate emotional states and signal others (survival value) brain about the basic emotion being expressed, begins in infancy, babies convey emotions and can interpret parental expressions. Mirror neurons: mirror neurons: brain cells that fire when a person or animal observes others carrying out an action, they are involved in empathy, limitation, and reading emotions, mood contagion: a mood spreading from one person to another, as facial expressions of emotion in the first person generate emotions in the other, nonverbal signals can cue emotional responses in others as well.