PSYC 308 Chapter 6: Ch. 6 Readings
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Emotions have a powerful influence on what people perceive, how they reason, what they value, what they deem right and wrong. Emotions can be de ned as brief, speci c, multidimensional responses to challenges or opportunities that are important to our goals, especially our social goals. Last seconds or minutes - with physiological responses that accompany it. In contrast, moods, such as feeling irritable or blue, can last for hours and even days. Emotions also help us achieve our social goals, in terms of responding to speci c challenges and opportunities involving interactions with other people. But in general, emotions motivate and guide appropriate goal-directed behavior that supports stronger and smoother social relationships. Components of emotion an appraisal process, consisting of patterns of construal by which we evaluate events and objects in our environment according to their relation to our cur- rent goals (lazarus, 1991; smith & ellsworth, 1985).
