Emotions

emotions

affect

affective experiences

emotions can be structures along 2 different dimensions

cerebral cortex

limbic system

Monet vs. Garfield study

ventromedial prefrontal cortex

misattribution of arousal

Bridge study

Who is going to cheat?

more misattribution

capgras syndrome

Phineas Gage

How people decide whats adaptive or maladaptive with gambling

three features of emotions

Amygdala reaction to potentially threatening things in environment

lesions to amygdala

people with amygdala damage

separable systems for positive emotions

interpretation of emotion

universality of emotional expression

6 basic emotional expressions

Different ways of dealing with emotions in different cultures

Why express emotions?