PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Thick Description, Hard Wired, Ifalik
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There is a distrust of and appreciation for emotion. Appreciation for emotion came about in era of romanticism. Religious sensibility is based on how you feel. Many of the themes of romanticism in frankenstein. The elements of a cultural approach to emotion. Values, concepts, and ideas about the self shape how members for particular societies experience emotion. Emotions are constructed primarily by the processes of culture. How emotions are valued and elicited are based on culture specific practices. These practices have been affected by historical and economic forces. Emotions derive from culture specific human meanings. Like languages or works of art from different cultures. Emotions can be thought of as roles people play in order to fulfill some cultural identity. Cultural approach focuses on the practice of emotion, not their potential for emotion. Potential = if a person was put in a lab and stimulated, would they show universal emotion facially, physiologically etc.
