PSYC18H3 Chapter 3: Chapter 3
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This notion originated first from plato (who believed emotions were from the lower part of the mind) and then brought into modern era by darwin ( who said emotions are vestiges of our evolution from the beasts) We also have a postive view towards emotion. We think they guid us to our true selves. These 2 stances toward emotion (distrust & appreciation) are constructions of western. Appreciation emerged during romanticism era in europe & america where emotions came to be values in personal life, politics, literature, and in philosophy. The elements of a cultural approach to emotion. The construction of emotions in the west. Our implicit theory of emotions in the west. Note a distrust of emotions association between emotional & irrational. Values, concepts, and ideas about the self, as expressed in art forms, rituals, social practices & institutions, shape how members of particular societies experience emotion, and that these matters are not universal.
