PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Montane Vole, James W. Pennebaker, Cortisol
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Emotions: brief(hours or days), specific, socially oriented states. Brief: facial expressions last 1-5 secs and many physiological responses that accompany emotion(sweaty palms, blush etc last for hours or even days. Specific: we feel emotions about specific people and events. Emotions help individuals achieve social goals: emotions motivate us to act in specific ways that affect important relationships and help us navigate our social environment. In general, emotions motivate appropriate goal-directed behavior that makes for stronger social relationships. What we make of objects depends on our vantage point and info we take in. Emotions involve many components : william james argues that the essense of an emotion, what determines its experience and differentiates it from other emotions, is its bodily response. Emotions are defined by shifts in our defined by their accompanying expressive behaviors, their gestures, facial muscles movements, vocalizations and postural movements. Exappraisals of loss trigger sadness in most parts of the world.
