PSYC 365 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Electrodermal Activity, Autonomic Nervous System, Display Rules
21 Sep 2017
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Females are stereotyped with being more emotional than males. African american women express as much anger as african american men and white men. Plant et al. , 2000 study raters saw women"s anger as less angry than men"s anger (when viewing ambiguous and unambiguous images of faces) Emotions are political emotion stereotypes regulate people"s behavior and help preserve the organization of social groups. Display rules = a culture"s rules for which emotions can be expressed or displayed. Kring and gordon, 1998 study participants rated sadness, fear, disgust, and happiness after watching several short videos. Biological blood pressure, heart rate, skin conductance. Expression verbal expressiveness, visual observations, facial emg. American culture acceptable to express happiness, but not grief. Female culture acceptable to express sympathy but not anger. Male culture acceptable to express anger but not fear. Women more facially expressive for all emotion clips; higher skin conductance to sad films. Females demonstrate greater awareness of their own emotions.
