PSYC18H3 Chapter 3: Chapter 3.doc
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Romanticism period that started around 1750 in europe, in which primacy of the natural and of the emotions was stressed, as compared with the artificial and with the dictates of convenion. In romantic era emotions came to be valued in personal life, in politics, in literature, and in philosophy. Express their emotions through art and to move reader, audience"s viewers, and listeners to emotional experience. Writing itself became a way of discovering inner emotional truths emotions, experienced and accepted, become an ideal to be cultivated. Jean jacques rousseau, who was the first published the idea that religious sensibility is based on how your feel rather than on authority, or on scripture, or on argument for the existence of god. The elements of a cultural approach to emotion. Cultural approach involves the assumption that emotions are constructed primarily by the processes of culture. They are like languages or words of art.
