PSYC 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Coronary Artery Disease, Relational Aggression, Positive Illusions

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Kim Elizabeth

Document Summary

Emotion: the mental state or feeling associated with our evaluation of our experiences. Primary emotions: small number (generally considered seven) of emotions believed by some theorists to be cross-culturally universal. Display rules: cross-cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions; don"t influence the emotion itself, but its overt expression. Elkman"s research in new guinea: experiment that brought pictures of americans to. Africa showing different emotions and asked them to match the emotions to brief stories; the subjects were able to identify the emotions; led to the 7 primary emotions. Nonverbal accents: slight differences in facial expressions depending on one"s culture. Secondary emotions: created from a combination of a small number of primary emotions. Duchenne smile: a genuine smile expression shown by the upward turning corners of the mouth, the drooping of the eyelids, and crinkling the corner of eyes.