PSYC 3250 Chapter Notes -Facial Expression

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3250
• Professor: Pauline Charlton

Document Summary

Aggression in females: aggression in females is facilitated by testosterone like w/ males; estrogen has no effect on aggression, females are more likely to engage in fights around the time of ovulation and menstruation. Communication of emotions: during premammalian times, the behavioral, autonomic and hormonal responses of emotion were all that ppl could display; now emotions are communicated in an extensive amount of ways. Neural basis of the communication of emotions: recognition: recognizing another persons emotions are automatic and very accurate; given more time to think about the emotion shows very little improvement. Perception of direction of gaze: gaze is important for recognizing emotions, bc it determines where the emotion is directed to: the superior temporal sulcus (sts) is used for direction of gaze. Disgust: damage to the insular cortex and basal ganglia impair ability to recognize disgust, the emotion of disgust has its origin in avoidance of disease. Neural basis of the communication of emotions: expression.