Emotions Flashcards
(36 cards)
Emotions
- universal & Transient ( lasts only for short time)
- gives meaning to events
- included feelings( subjective experience)
- triggers neurophysiological reactions to the events that may have an effect to our welfare and requires immediate behavioural response
- when emotions are triggered, t
Basic emotions
- Triggered by biological innate system of the brain
- Happy, Sad, Disgust, Angry, Fear, Surprise
Self conscious emotions
Emotions associated with self - reflection
- like shame, guilt, pride and embarrassment
Universality Studies
- Darwin explained that every culture have same set of basic emotions that have both communicative and adaptive value
Universal emotions - happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, anger, disgust - another emotion contempt was added later in the universal emotions
- further studies demonstrated that even in literate and preliterate cultures they identified the same six universal expressions ( emotions)
- like experiment done with blind atheletes
- experiment done with neonates, even they have fully developed muscles like an adult to show these emotions
- Twin family studies was another example and
What did Further research provided after the original universality studies
- Facial expressions occurs when emotions are triggered in all cultures
- universal signals found in babies
(Like disgust and crying) - Transition from one emotion to another is found universal in human and nonhuman primates expressions.
Emotion Antecedants
Events that trigger emotions
- like meeting a friend ( will show similar emotion universlly)
- someone died ( same emotion universally)
Further evidence of universatality of basic emotions
-We recognise Emotions similarly across cultures
- similar physiological reactions to emotion
- subjective experience
- emotional response system coherence
- emotional antecedent
- emotion appraisal process
Emotional Response system coherence
This means that our face , voice and physiology are related to each other in a meaningful way.
Happiness - underlying elicit emotions
Goal attainment or accomplishment
Anger
Goal obstruction
Sadness
Loss of loved one or object
Disgust
Contamination
Fear
Threat to physical or psychological well-being
Surprise
New or Novel object ( Novel means changing because it’s new)
Contempt
Moral Superiority
Evolution of human species and emotions
- help us to evaluate the significance of events and situations in reliable and predictable ways
- helps in understanding important social meanings
- help us to cope, adapt and respond to situations regardless of culture.
Why culture influences emotion
To create coordination and organisation among cultural group.
How culture influences emotion
1 - creating rules, values, beliefs norms and guidelines regulating the emotions
2 - regulation biological based basic emotions
3- constructing unique emotional experiences
4 - constructing unique concepts, meaning , attitudes, value and beliefs about emotion
Front end Calbiration
- Culture influences what events their members need to experience emotion and in what way,
Like meeting a friend.
Back end Calibration
- culture influences how the emotion is supposed to expressed in the event.
Like if you don’t agree to someone’s statement of your family member ( in some cultures they will still want you to be silent about it)
Deamplification
Express less than you actually felt
Amplification
Express more than you actually feel
Neutralisation
Show nothing
Qualification
Show emotion but with another emotion to comment on it
( being angry with someone but also showing that you are concerned about them)
