PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Carroll Izard, Nonverbal Communication, Cerebral Cortex
6 Nov 2016
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Capacity of complex emotional experience and expression colors and. What is emotion animates our daily life: a construct that is difficult to define. Many different emotions in the repertoire of human experience. Some are universal, but some are culture specific. Some emotions are intense (euphoria, rage) and some are mild. Some emotions are pleasant and some are unpleasant. Some emotions motivate us to take actions and others do not: three agreed-upon characteristics. When we experience emotion, it does something inside of us. It changes the body at a physiological level. Emotions involve expressive behavior in the face and body. We convey our emotions in different ways in our faces and bodies. James-lange theory of emotions: common sense view of emotions. We would intuitively agree that emotional experience precedes behavioral expression (we smile because we are happy; we cry because we are sad: james-lange view of emotions (1884)
