PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Cheq Wong Language, West North Central States, Sukha
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What is an emotion: emotions are central to human experiences, debate about how experiences should be defined universal or relative. James-lange theory has expanded to include appraisals, nonverbal expressions. Does emotional experience vary across cultures: there are 2 aspects of emotions, objectively visible aspects facial expressions, subjectively experienced aspect people"s description of their emotions. Emotions and facial expressions: facial expressions are reflexive they are part of the biological makeup, biological makeup of everyone is the same so facial expressions should be the same worldwide. Japanese are more likely to conceal faces when they feel disruptive compared to americans. Americans to report that they had not been feeling any emotions: east asians are less attentive to their visceral state. European-canadians: participants were in a situation where they needed to inhibit their anger, this inhibition of anger led to a slower recovery of bp for european- Canadians: results suggest that chinese-canadians experience anger less intensely.
