PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Happy Planet Index, Hedonic Treadmill, Positive Illusions
19 Feb 2014
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Emotions include three components: associated with distinct subjective feelings or affects, accompanied by bodily changes, mostly in the nervous system, accompanied by distinct action tendencies, or increases in probabilities of certain behaviors. People differ in emotional reactions, even to the same event, so emotions are useful in making distinctions between persons. Emotions are your experience, they may look or feel differently than someone else. Palms of hands sweating, heart racing, breathing heavier physiological changes. Issues in emotion research: emotional states versus emotional traits, categorical versus dimensional approach to emotions. Emotional states: transitory, depend more on the situation than on a specific person. Emotional traits: pattern of emotional reactions that a person consistently experiences across a variety of life situations. People have different emotions than other people to the same situation. The same person can experience different emotions in the same situation at different times.
