PSYC 308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Affective Forecasting, Mountain Biking
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Primary appraisal stage: unconscious, fast, and automatic appraisals of whether the event is consistent or inconsistent with the persons goals give rise to general pleasant or unpleasant feelings, automatic responses (cid:224) are triggered by stimuli of significance to our survival. Which maintains that expressions of human emotion that we observe today derive from habitual patters of behavior that proved useful in the evolution of our primate and mammalian predecessors: three hypotheses, universality, all humans have 30 40 facial muscles (cid:224) used to communicate similar emotions, other cultures perceive and show emotions in a similar fashion, similarity between our emotional expression and that of our primate and mammalian ancestors, emotions of animals in a zoo, are similar to those of humans, emotions encoded in nervous system, blind people show same emotional response, with an inability to ever see (cid:224) reveals that we are wired to make these responses.
