PSYCH 280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Duration Neglect, Affective Forecasting
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Emotion - a brief, specific response both psychological and physiological, that helps people meet goals, including social goals. Appraisal process - component of emotion; patterns of construal for evaluation events and objects in the environment based on their relation to current goals. Emotion accent - specific way people from different cultures express a particular emotion. Focal emotion - emotion that is especially common within a particular culture. Display rule - a culturally specific rule that governs how, when, and to whom people express emotions. Emotional intelligence (eq) - the ability to express, recognize, and use emotions well within social interactions. Broaden-and-build hypothesis - the idea that positive emotions broaden thoughts and actions, helping people build social resources. Social institutionalist model of moral judgement - the idea that people first have fast, emotional reactions to morally relevant events, and then rely on reason to arrive at a judgement of right or wrong.
