What are emotions

Question 1

3 properties of emotion

Answer 1

Phenomenal experience (Feelings/cognition)

Physiological pattern (Bodily reaction, pupil dilation)

Verbal + nonverbal expression (behaviour/body language)

Question 2

Basic emotional expressions

Answer 2

Fear, anger, disgust, joy, sadness and surprise.

Universal and quite easy to read from faces.

Studies often use the zygomaticus major activation, as this is active in lots of expressions in different manners.

Question 3

Cross-cultural recognition

Answer 3

basic emotions are relatively distinct, but often mixed to some degree.

There’s subtle differences across subjects, causing cross-cultural recogniction to be to a limited degree

In-group advantage is moderated by cross-cultural exposure

Question 4

Display and decoding rules

Answer 4

There is a cultural dependence on emotion experience, display rules are norms on displaying emotions.

Eg Japanese, when watching stressful film with someone else, they adapted their expression and hid negative emotions and were more likely to display surpise than Amaricans

Question 5

Contextual information

Answer 5

Japanese were more likely to be influenced by contextual information and relationships than Americans. They tended to ignore this when making judgement

Also when judging a person with people in the background, Japanese were influenced by emotion of surrounders (sad vs happy)