PSY2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Emotions, Display Rules, Motivation
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Note: our coverage of this chapter will be limited to: Describe the discrete emotions theory, and distinguish between primary and secondary emotions. Discrete emotions theory humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that are rooted in our biology. Primary emotions happiness, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise, and anger . Secondary emotions : alarm = surprise + fear, contempt = anger + disgust. Explain how display rules affect the perception of emotion in other people. Display rules how and when to express emotion: cultural differences, power differences, gender differences. Describe three major theories of emotion including the james-lange theory, Cannon-bard theory, and two-factor theory (also called schacter-singer theory). James-lang theory stimulus = physiological arousal = emotion: ex. Seeing a bear, your heart beats fast, and you feel scared: theory was discarded because individual physiological states don"t predict emotion. Cannon-bard theory stimulus = physiological arousal and emotion: ex.
