PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Stanley Schachter, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Erving Goffman
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The west"s most prominent early theorists of emotions, the epicureans and stoics, thought that emotions are irrational and damaging. How are emotions expressed in humans and other animals? (blushing, body contact, clenching fists, etc. ) Snarling was a form of using teeth to attack but it is also no longer needed. ) William james the bodily approach: the principles of psychology (1890) Thought that emotion is the perception of changes of our body as we react to the fact (e. g. meeting a bear in the woods) The core of an emotion is the pattern of bodily responses. Emotions give colour and warmth to experience. Sigmund freud the psychoanalytic approach: proposed that certain events, usually of a sexual kind, can be so damaging that they leave psychological scars that can affect the rest of our lives, e. g. A hearer is more likely to believe a good person than a bad one. People are persuaded when what is said stirs their emotions.
