PSY290H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Facial Nerve, Trigeminal Nerve
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Emotion a combination of physical sensations and the conscious experience of a feeling. Emotion has two major components: physical sensation such as a rapid heartbeat, conscious, subjective experience or feeling, such as feeling scared. Valence a positive (attractive) or negative (aversive) reaction to an object or event. Charles darwin (1872) made a careful study of the facial expressions produced by human and other primates and concluded that emotional expression must have evolved. Emotions manage our approach and withdrawal behaviours relative to particular environmental stimuli. Nonverbal communication the use of facial expressions, gestures, and body language to communicate ideas and feelings: provides a source of social information. Human adults usually express and interpret emotions accurately. We can hide our feelings, but the subtleties of emotional expressions often give us away. Humans pay most attention to the face, in particular to the eyes.
