CMP 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Affective Forecasting, Anchoring

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In the primary appraisal stage, we evaluate whether ongoing events are congruent with our goals. Some cultures develop specific ways of expressing a particular emotion, known as an emotion accent. Cultures vary in which emotions are focal, or common in everyday experience. Cultures vary in how many words they have in their language to describe emotion. And cultures vary in which emotions are highly valued, or idealized. People have been shown to infrahumanize outgroup members: they attribute basic emotions like anger and disgust to outgroups, but assume that outgroups do not so readily experience the more complex emotions, like embarrassment. Emotions and social cognition: the feelings-as-information perspective says that -emotions provide rapid and reliable information for judgments when we don"t have time to evaluate complex information. Studies have found that momentary emotions influence judgments of life satisfaction and risk: emotions influence moral judgments in powerful ways.

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