PSYB65H3 Chapter : PSYB65- Ch 9
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Plato suggested the head was for reason, the liver for desire, and the heart for anger. Emotion, the physical sensations of emotion private events that either are described to others or inferred by others. Emotional states, two components: the physical sensation of the emotion and the cognitive experience of feeling, of the emotion itself. > to perceive emotional states, humans have become adept at monitoring physiological change in their bodies and in the bodies of others (humans self-monitor subjective cognitive states) Ppl process the cognitive and physical aspects of emotional states in distinct neural circuits they work in concert to produce the unified percept of an emotion. Darwin was the first to recognize basic emotional states and that it occurred innately in kids and thus not learned. > universal emotional states primarily through invariant facial expressions (adaptive purpose) First cross-cultural studies of facial expressions was performed on the fore tribe in.
