01:830:338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Factor Analysis, Positive Illusions, Negative Affectivity
28 May 2016
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Associated with distinct subjective feelings or affects. Accompanied by bodily changes, mostly in the nervous system. Accompanied by distinct action tendencies, or increases in probabilities of certain behaviors. People differ in emotional reactions, even to the same event, so emotions are useful in making distinctions between persons. Emotional states: transitory, depend more on the situation than on a specific person. Emotional traits: pattern of emotional reactions that a person consistently experiences across a variety of life situations. Focus on identifying a small number of primary and distinct emotions. Lack of consensus about regarding which emotions are primary. Lack of consensus is attributable to different criteria used for defining an emotion as primary. Based on empirical research rather than theoretical criteria. People rate themselves on a variety of emotions, then the researcher applies statistical techniques (mostly factor analysis) to identify dimensions underlying ratings. Consensus among researchers on two basic dimensions:
