PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Social Emotions
31 Oct 2017
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Emotions have biological roots and serve evolutionary function: babies learn to be expressive, animals and human show similarities. Our emotional reactions about a situation come before our thoughts about it. Good support for seven primary emotions if evolutionary in nature, emotions should be universal fear: happiness, disgust, sadness, surprise, anger, contempt (cid:498)pride(cid:499) may also be a primary emotion. Real vs. fake emotions: certain components of facial expression allow us to distinguish when someone is showing a genuine emotion, duchenne vs. pan am (fake smiles) Posit that emotions are products of thinking, rather than the other way around there are as many emotions as there are kidns of thoughts. Earliest theoires were james lange and cannon board theory. James lange theory: proposes that emotions result from our interpretations of our bodily reactions to stimuli. Cannon bard theory: instead says an emotion provoking event leads simultaneously to emotional and bodily reactions.
