Lecture 10: Emotion In Social Relations Flashcards
What are the 4 components of emotions:
Cognitive appraisal (interpretation of events) Physiological response (heart rate, breathing, sweating etc) Behavioural action (flight/fight etc) Subjective feeling (angry,sad,happy)
What are Eckmans 6 basic emotions?
Happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust
What is schatners and singers model of emotion? What is a problem with this?
Emotional stimulus- physiological arousal and cognitive interpretation - emotional response. This could be a problem as physiological responses can be Misattributed to the wrong emotion
What did schatners and signer do to test Misattribution of emotions?
They manipulated whether or not ps would receive a shot of adrenaline and either told them/ didn’t tell them/ or mislead them about it. Ps were placed in a room with either a happy or aggressive confederate. They then recorded how happy or angry they felt and asked why they felt this way. They found that ps how were informed about the shot attributed their physiological changes to the shot but those ps who were misinformed or not told at all attributed their physiological arousal to the happiness or angryness of the confederate. Proving that miss attributions occur
What is excitation transfer?
Excitation transfer is when you transfer the arousal you feel from one event onto another event.
Aron’s and duttons study on Misattribution and arousal transfer consisted of….
Participants were approached by either a female or male confederate on a safe or scary bridge and asked to complete a fake experiment. At the completion participants were given the experimenters number and were told to call if they had any questions. Participants also had to write a brief story. They found that when approached by a female experimenter on a scary bridge the experimenter was called more often and the stories contained more sexual imagery than on the safe bridge or with the male experimenter. The participants Misattributed their physiological Arousal from the scary bridge to love of the experimenter.
Why do we have emotions?
Survival instincts and reactions
Social relations
What did Rime et Al’s study on communication of emotion find?
Rime et al asked ps to keep a journal of all the conversations they had with people and found that people talked a lot about their emotions to everyone. The only emotion ps didn’t talk about to acquaintances, colleagues and parents was shame.
What types of emotional cues are there?
Verbal cues- language, words, volume, pitch
Non- verbal cues- body language, facial expressions etc
What 4 things help recognise cues?
Meaning of the cue ( what does crying mean in this context?)
Consistency of the cues (are all the cues showing this particular emotion?)
Ability to interpret the cues (emotional intelligence, male v female)
Accessibility of emotion categories ( is there a word and description for this? )
What is emotional contagion?
Other people’s emotions in a social context influence our own
What did barsade do regarding mood effect on a situation?
Barsade had participants put into small groups where a confederate would read a script and say it either positively or negatively. The non-verbal behaviours, subjective mood ratings and overall performance of the ps were recorded and found that ps mood correlated with the confederates
What is emotional regulation and why do we do if?
Emotional regulation is the regulation of the expression and experience of emotion. We do it to feel better, to prepare for situations and conform to social norms.
What is Gross’ process model of emotion regulation ?
When an emotional cue presents itself emotion regulation can occur in two places. 1 is before the emotional response is elicited and the other is just after. The one before is called antecedent focused emotion regulation and the one afterwards is called response focused regulation.
Explain how antecedent focused emotional regulation works.
People can avoid the situation, change the situation, they can ignore the situation and they can cognitively change how they think about the situation.
