PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hikaru Genji, Cheq Wong Language, Biological Process
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Catherine lutz on the island of ifaluk where she experienced a different emotional culture. Plato thought that emotions arise from the lower part of the mind and pervert reason. Jean-jacques rousseau: published that religious sensibility is based on how you feel. Writers began to explore the worlds of ordinary life, writing itself became a way of discovering inner emotional truths. Frankenstein and its emphasis on the natural, distrust of the artificial, apprehension of humans arrogantly overstepping boundaries. Romantic movement: we see core beliefs about human nature and about emotions as original, primordial, authentic causes of behaviour. Emotiosn are powerful forces, often at odds with more deliberate, rational thought. The elements of a cultural approach to emotion. Values, concepts and ideas about the self as expressed in art forms, rituals, etc shape how members of particular societies experience emotion and these matters are not universal. Culture-specific beliefs and practices are influenced by historical and economic factors.
