Chapter 13: Individual Differences in Emotions Flashcards

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US Sample highlights

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  • men report more happiness
  • women report more negative emotions
  • men and women had same frequency of emotions in general
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Children Metanalysis

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  • females showed more positive emotions in childhood and adolescence
  • internalising differences disappeared by adolescence
  • externalising switched to adolescent females after adolescnce
  • overal negative facial expressions were highest in girls after adolescence (teen years??)
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LaFrance et al’s Study (smiling)

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  • differences are most pronounced with unfamiliar social partners
  • largest effect for teenagers
  • largest effects for equal-power partners
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Aldao et al’s Study

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  • women reported ruminating + using secondary control strategies, which is contradictory
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Primary vs Secondary Control Strategies

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primary: change the situation around you
secondary: change the way you think and interact with the situation

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Frontal Lobe Assymetry

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left: approach motivation
right: avoidance motivation

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Hecht and LaFrance’s Study

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same-sex dyads
- women smiled more than men regardless of status
- difference was eliminated when comparing high status men and women
- smiling was no longer correlated with positive feelings when the person was in the “interviewee” role

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OCEAN

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Open-mindedness to new experiences
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeability
Neuroticism

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O

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high dispositional positive affect (even when controlling for the other 4)

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C

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report more joy, contentment, and pride
- stronger senes of emotional regulation and control

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E

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linked to positive emotions, and more reward driven
- higher positive reactivity

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A

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highly linked with positive emotions, better at emotional regulation
- more intense interpersonal emotions

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linked with negative emotions; reliance on wishful thinking and withdrawal

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