PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Orbicularis Oculi Muscle, Endorphins

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Mark Fenske

Document Summary

Emotion biological reactions to important life events. Stimulus emotion bodily reaction: james lange argued against this, he suggested emotional experience follows from bodily responses. Main assumptions: body reacts uniquely to diff emotion eliciting events, the body does not react to nonemotional events. With anger hr and st increased. With fear hr increased and st decreased. Endocrine activity is important: opiates promote social bonding, morphine and endorphins alleviate sadness and separation distress. Grays findings of distinct neural circuts emotions in non humans. Subjective aspect of emotion stems from feelings endangered by: Changes in glandular activity in facial skin. Emotions are therefore muscle and glandur responses in face. Does not maintain emotional experience or cognitive and bodily participation the emotion program does that. 36/80 facial muscles are involved in facial expression. 8 are significant for differentiating among basic emotions the upper face (eyes and forehead) frontalis, corrugator, and orbicularis oculi.