Emotion Flashcards
Five components of emotion
Feelings
Physiological reactions
Behaviour
Cognition
Expression
PAUL ECKMAN AMOUNT OF EMOTIONS
Claimed there’s 6 emotions
Anger
Disgust
Fear
Happiness
Sadness
Surprise
ROBERT PLUTCHIKS AMOUNT OF EMOTIONS
8 emotions
Joy - sadness
Trust - disgust
Anger - fear
Surprise - anticipation
These emotions could be BLENDED into complex emotions
Two kinds of emotion
Basic/universal: don’t need the presence of others to be felt
Eg joy anger disgust
Social: need the presence of others to be felt
Eg jealousy embarrassment shame
JAMES-LANGE THEORY OF EMOTION
Emotions occur as a direct result of Physiological changes as opposed to the other way around
“We feel sad because we cry, we don’t cry because we feel sad”
CANNON-BARD THEORY OF EMOTION
The Physiological change and reaction happen at the SAME TIME
- arousal can be felt without emotion eg exercise
- emotions are sometimes experienced quicker than the physio response
- same physio response can be attributed to different emotions
SINGER AND SCHACHTER’S THEORY OF EMOTION
1) If a person experiences a state of arousal for which they have no explanation, they will look for one, and often attribute it to an emotion
2) if they do have an appropriate explanation they’ll be less likely to look for alternative means to account for it
THE ADRENALINE STUDY
Two groups were injected with adrenaline. One was informed about its effects, one was told they were given vitamin C. In the waiting room where the patients were, a person acted rude on purpose and another person told jokes.
In the end the people were asked about how rude the rude guy was and how funny the funny guy was.
Those who were informed about the effects of the injections gave neutral responses and those who were not informed gave extreme responses
THE WOBBLY BRIDGE STUDY
Two groups of men, one at a wobbly bridge and one at a regular stable bridge, were approached by a woman and told to write a story about a picture of an embarrassed woman. The woman then gave the test subjects her number.
The people at the wobbly bridge came up with more sexual stories and ended up calling the woman that night, while men on the stable bridge gave neutral responses.
- subjects identified their Physiological response of fear at the bridge with those of tension and lust
FACIAL EXPRESSION UNIVERSALITY THEORY
for an emotion to be universal (recognised all over the world):
1) the same pattern of facial display should occur in all human groups even if isolated from other groups
2) people in different cultures should attribute the same emotion to the same expression
3) the same facial pattern should unanimously portray the emotion all human societies attribute to that facial pattern
intrapersonal emotional role
the role the emotion plays within the iduvidual
interpersonal emotional role
the role the emotion plays in maintaining relationships
societal and cultural role
the role the emotion plays in helping society
Duchenne smile
a “genuine” smile where the eyes are engaged in the expression
referential expression
a fake expression used on purpose (eg retelling a story with the same emotion you felt when the story happened for effect, but not actually feeling that emotion in the moment)
