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Emotions
Emotion: A state of arousal involving facial and body changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action, all shaped by cultural rules.
Arousal- excited state; elevated state of emotion. (Can be positive or negative)
Brain activation- electrical sparks; neurons
Appraise- an act of assessing someone or something.
Subjective feeling- feeling perceive by the person with the feelings
Tendency to act- The action of being sad is crying
Cultural rules- Men can’t cry. You can’t kill when you’re angry
Elements of Emotion 1: The Body
Primary emotions
Emotions considered to be universal and biologically based. They generally include fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust, and contempt
Secondary emotion
Emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individuals and cultures
Three biological areas of emotion are:
Facial expressions
Brain regions and circuits
Autonomic nervous system
The face of emotion:
Universal Expressions of Emotion:
Facial expressions for primary emotions are universal
Even members of remote cultures can recognize facial expressions in people who are foreign to them
Facial feedback – Process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed.
Infants are able to read parental expressions
Facial expressions can generate same expressions in others, creating mood contagion.
The Face of Anger
The brain of the emotion
Hormones and emotion
Detecting emotions: Does the body lie?
Universial Expressions of emotions:
Facial Expresions for primary emotions are universal
Even members of remotre cultures xan recognize facial expressions in people who are foreign to them
Facial feedback:
Process by which the facial musclres send messages
The face of Anger:
Anger is universally rexcognized by geometric patterns on the face
Facial Expressions in Social Context:
Across and within cultures agreement
Emotion: A state of arousal involving facial and body changes, brain activation, cognitive appraisals, subjective feelings, and tendencies toward action, all shaped by cultural rules.
Arousal- excited state; elevated state of emotion. (Can be positive or negative)
Brain activation- electrical sparks; neurons
Appraise- an act of assessing someone or something.
Subjective feeling- feeling perceive by the person with the feelings
Tendency to act- The action of being sad is crying
Cultural rules- Men can’t cry. You can’t kill when you’re angry
Elements of Emotion 1: The Body
Primary emotions
Emotions considered to be universal and biologically based. They generally include fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust, and contempt
Secondary emotion
Emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individuals and cultures
Three biological areas of emotion are:
Facial expressions
Brain regions and circuits
Autonomic nervous system
The face of emotion:
Universal Expressions of Emotion:
Facial expressions for primary emotions are universal
Even members of remote cultures can recognize facial expressions in people who are foreign to them
Facial feedback – Process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed.
Infants are able to read parental expressions
Facial expressions can generate same expressions in others, creating mood contagion.
The Face of Anger
The brain of the emotion
Hormones and emotion
Detecting emotions: Does the body lie?
Universial Expressions of emotions:
Facial Expresions for primary emotions are universal
Even members of remotre cultures xan recognize facial expressions in people who are foreign to them
Facial feedback:
Process by which the facial musclres send messages
The face of Anger:
Anger is universally rexcognized by geometric patterns on the face
Facial Expressions in Social Context:
Across and within cultures agreement