PSYC 4430 Lecture 16: Chapter 3 Basic Emotions
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Emotions differ in appraisal, antecedent events, probable behavioral response, and physiology. In contrast to theories stating emotions differ only in intensity and pleasure. Involved in: attachment, aggression, communication, representing moods or states: emotion-specific physiology: if basic emotions evolved to deal with fundamental life tasks, then there should be physiological changes preparing the organism to respond differently in differing emotional states. Evidence for distinctive patterns of automatic nervous system response for: anger, fear, disgust, and maybe sadness. Stemmler (1989) suggested ans pattern was specific to how the emotion was elicited. Ekman and others suggested emotion-specific pattern can be elicited in different ways. Boiton (1996) disproved emotion-specific ans pattern changes as a result of different facial muscular movement patterns. Levenson & ekman argue that data further supports their findings of emotion- specific physiology. Some argue that different patterns of ans activity were socially learned: People are taught to behave a certain way when experiencing different emotions.