PSY-1200 Chapter 36: Module 36 Notes

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY-1200
• Professor: Sandberg Elisabeth

Document Summary

Module 36 expressed emotion: people are generally good at sensing emotions in others faces, and it is difficult to tell the difference between someone who is genuine or someone who is lying. 1. facial feedback effect - the effect our outwardly expressed emotions have to influence our inner feelings and emotions. Our face feeds our feelings: behavior feedback phenomenon - you can duplicate the participants" experience: Walk for a few minutes with short, shuffling steps, keeping your eyes downcast. Now walk around taking long strides, with your arms swinging and your eyes looking straight ahead. Going through the motions awakens the emotions: anger. Ten basic emotions according to carroll izard are joy, interest-excitement, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, and guilt. But small hassles and blameless annoyances foul odors, high temperatures, a traffic jam, aches and pains also have the power to make us angry: chronic anger is linked to heart disease, catharsis: emotional release.