PSY331H1 Final: Second Half Study Notes
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Emotion regulation: strategies to control which emotions we have, when and how strongly we experience and express. Discrepancy between how we want to feel and how we do feel. Emotion knowledge: awareness of current emotional state (causes and bodily sensations), how it might affect us and others. Hedonic motivation: avoid unpleasant feelings, seek out pleasant ones. Enhance or inhibit emotions to help us perform on tasks. Self-protection motives: one"s safety or get help from others. Impression management motive: avoid being judged negatively by others. Emotion norms: knowledge of which emotions are appropriate to context. Emotional intelligence: regulate emotions by conforming to emotion norms, taking into account feelings of others. Display and feeling rules: what we should show and experience, cultural/job differences. Gender-specific: men more powerful, self-protective emotions, women more relational, pro- social (times are changing, western cultures are starting to drop these norms) Antecedent-focused: before emotion is elicited, modifies emotional impact.
