Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Emotion
- Primary Emotions: evolutionarily adaptive, shared across
cultures, and associated with specific physical states (ex: anger,
fear, sadness, happiness, disgust, surprise, contempt)
- Secondary Emotions: blends of
primary emotions (ex: remorse, guilt,
submission, shame, anticipation)
- Three Theories of Emotion
- James-Lange Theory:
emotions result from
the experience of
physiological reactions
from the body
- Cannon-Bard Theory: Emotions and bodily
response both occur simultaneously
- Schachter-Singer
two-factor theory: How an
emotion is experienced is
influenced by the cognitive
label applied to explain the
physiological changes
explained
- Emotional Brain
- Amygdala: The "quick and dirty"
system, processes emotional
significance of stimuli & generates
immediate emotional and behavioral
reactions; assists in reading facial
expressions
- Prefrontal Cortex: left and right
frontal lobes are affected by
different emotions, damage to
either lobe impairs emotional
experience
- Right prefrontal
cortex: associated
with negative
emotions
- Left hemisphere:
associated with
positive emotion
- Humor has
many mental
and physical
health benefits
- Distraction: Involves doing or
thinking something other than the
troubling activity or thought
- Display Rules: rules that are learned through
socialization and dictate what emotions are suitable in
each situation
- these rules tend to be
different for men and women
from culture to culture
- Emotions influence thoughts
- Affect-as-information: people use
their current mood to make
decisions and judgments even
without knowing the source of
their mood
- Decision Making: anticipating how choices
might affect our emotions can serve as a
guide in decision making
- Guilt: a negative emotional state associated
with anxiety, tension, and agitation
- socialization is sometimes considered more important
than biology in determining how children experience
guilt
- embarrassment: often felt after violating a
cultural norm, doing something clumsy, or
experiencing something else that would cause a
threat to their self image
- People frequently blush when they feel
embarrassed which indicates that there is an
understanding of social awkwardness