PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Limbic System, Coronary Artery Disease, Prefrontal Cortex
13 Mar 2013
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Emotions are accompanied by distinct action tendencies, or increased in the probabilities of certain behaviours. A functional analysis of emotions and emotional expressions focuses on the why of emotions and expressions in terms of whether they increase the fitness of individuals. Emotional states are transitory and depend more on the situation a person is in than on the specific person. Style of emotional life content is the specific kind of emotion that a person experiences, whereas style is the way in which an emotion is experienced. Part of being happy is to have positive illusions about the self, an inflated view of ones own characteristics as a good, able and desirable person as this caharacteristic appears to be part of emotional well-being. Extraversion and neuroticism accounted for up to 3 times as much of the variation in happiness between people caompard with all of the common demographic variables put together.
