PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Paul Ekman, Social Exclusion, Amygdala
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Substantive theme: social and emotional influence on thinking and perceiving. Elegant experimental studies by paul ekman and other researchers have indeed shown that emotions can be covertly induced and reliably manipulated by specific facial contractions. Human face is an exquisite and efficient organ of emotional communication. The idea is that the emotional salience of the human face reflects an intricate interaction (statistical) among distinct features of the face. Statistical interactions it is how different factors, either directly or indirectly, influence experience example the effect of valium and alcohol when taken together produce feelings of depression but when taken alone produce very different emotional effects. Factorial design an experimental design in which all conditions of the independent variable are combined with all conditions of the other independent variable. The main effects of each independent variable as well as the interaction effects between and among the independent variables can be statically tested.
