PS102 Lecture 15: PS102 Lecture 15, 16 & 17 Chp 11
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Emotion is a state of arousal involving: physiological changed in the face, brain, and body, cognitive processes such as interpretation of events, cultural influences that shape the experience and expression of emotion. 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, e. g. embarrassment, shame, jealousy. (you don"t see them in children, they develop over time and they mean different things in different cultures) Evolutionary explanations say that emotions are hard-wired and have survival functions: evidence for the universality of 7 facial expressions of emotion (ekman, Anger, happiness, surprise, disgusts, sadness, and contempt. Genuine versus fake emotions can be distinguished. A fake smile last longer than a genuine smile. Some emotions are more common in some cultures than others. Anger not tolerated in the inuit, threatens communities.
