PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Life Satisfaction, Exercise Machine, Affective Forecasting

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Mark Baldwin

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Emotion = a brief, specific response, both psychological and physiological, that helps people meet goals, including social goals. Appraisal process = a component of emotion; patterns of construal for evaluating events and objects in the environment based on their relation to the current goals. People of all cultures express and perceive emotion the same. Blind people will express the same way since it has been coded by evolutionary processes. Not so fast: critical thinking about what micro-analysis of behaviour can. Fake smile = duchenne smile = negative emotions. Seeing other"s embarrassment makes us think they are more trustworthy. Blind people display same physical cues of emotion. Cultures develop emotion accents = a specific way people from different cultures express a particular emotion. Practically all cultures agree on most emotions, however some cultures have additional ways of expressing emotions that others don"t. Focal emotion = an emotion that is especially common within a particular culture.