PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Nonverbal Communication
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Conscious experience: as psychologists, how do we fit these pieces together, theories of emotion. We feel emotions because we have a physical response: ex. We feel sad because we cry: ex. We see a bear, then sns activates, our awareness of increased heart rate we interpret as fear. Our bodily arousal and emotional experience have to occur simultaneously: ex. See a bear, and as your heart races you experience fear at the same time. See a bear, heart races and you think i"m afraid! And then you feel fear: the basic emotions. Facial expressions associated with the 6-10 basic emotions. Regan and ok symbol in brazil: detecting emotions in others. We get a lot of information from the eyes of others. We can gather information from tiny details. Research shows that we are primed quickly to negative emotions. Introverts tend to excel at reading others" emotions. Smile as big as you can for the next 30 seconds!
