PSYC 2084 Lecture 4: Mood
8 Sep 2016
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What is an emotion: a short-term instinctive feeling. The difference: moods last longer (still temporary but longer than an emotion) o. You can go from happy to sad in seconds: a mood is a general feeling (low intensity and less specific) Theory behind social psych"s interest in emotions o. Common belief by psychologists that moods and emotions are socially constructive. Meaning that our emotions are learned from others. They don"t exist until people create them o. Emotions are adaptive for survival and are innate (you will have them no matter what) o. Wanted to provide scientific evidence for either mead or darwin"s hypothesis. If they are socially constructed, they will differ across different cultures. If they are innate, then everyone in the world will share these emotions no matter what. Stone-age culture, very unindustrialized so not likely to share universal cultural influence. Tell them a story about certain moments and asked how they would react.
