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affect |
feelings, or subjective experience |
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appraisal |
the process by which people evaluate the events, situations, or occurrences that lead to their having emotions |
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basic emotions |
a small set of emotions, or family of emotions, that are considered to be universal to all humans. |
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cultural display rules |
culturally prescribed rules that govern how universal emotions can be expressed. These rules centre on the appropriateness of displaying emotion, depending social circumstances. Learned in early life. |
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decoding rules |
rules that govern the interpretation and perception of emotion. Learned, cultural based rules that shape how people of each culture view and internet the emotional expression of others |
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dialectical thinking |
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emotions |
transient, neurophysioogical reactions to events that have consequences for our welfare, and require an immediate behavioural response |
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emotion antecedents |
the vents or situations that elicit or trigger an emotion |
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emotion response system coherence |
the idea that the various response components of an emotion (facial expression, voice, physiological reactions etc) are related to each other in a coordinated fashion that prepared individuals to do something. |
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emotional complexity |
the idea that positive and negative emotions can co-occur and be experienced simultaneously |
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hypercognition |
relatively greater amounts and forms of knowledge, awareness, and thought about something that go beyond the usual. |
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hypocognition |
fewer amounts and forms of knowledge, awareness, and thought about something compared to the usual. |
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ingroup advantage |
the ability of individuals from a certain culture to recognize emotions of others of the same culture better than those from a different culture |
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self conscious emotions |
emotions that focus on the self, such as same, guilt, pride, or embarrassment. Important because we believe that humans universally have a unique knowledge of self that is different from other animals |
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socially engaging emotions |
emotions tha occur as a result of themes grounded in interdependence and relationships with others |
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socially disengaging emotions |
emotions that occur as a result of themes grounded in independence and autonomy of the self, and its separateness from others. |
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Subjective experience of emotion |
an individuals inner feelings of experiences of an emotion |
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universality studies |
a series of studies that demonstrated the pan cultural universality of facial expression and emotion. |
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in what 3 ways does culture effect emotion? |
1) it regulated out biologically based emotions 2) it helps construct unique emotional experiences - beyond basic emotions 3) it helps to construct unique concepts, meanings, beliefs etc. about emotion |
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What 6 emotions have been shown to be universal? |
fear anger, happiness disgust sadness surprise |
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Has there been evidence to show that universal facial expressions are genetically encoded? |
Yes (comparison of emotional expression in blind athletes, emotions in apes) |
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Has evidence shown that the basic emotions are universally recognized? what 7th emotion is universally recognized? |
yes contempt |
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how do emotions help people respond to emotional stimuli? |
by preparing the body to engage in activity |
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Explain front-end calibration of the emotion system |
differences in culture which leads to variations in the frequency of antecedent events that bring about emotion. ex. relationship problems cause more sadness for Japanese that for Americans. Emotion apprasial varies as well. Ex. americans believe more than Japanese that they can influence a situation in a positive way in regards to fear. |
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In what 6 ways can display rules modify emotional expression? |
Deamplification (display less) Amplification (express more) Neutralization (show nothing) Qualification (show with another emotion) Masking (conceal emotion by showing something else) Simulation (show an emotion thats not being felt) |
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Do collectivist or individualistic cultures tend to have less expressivity overall as a display rule? |
collectivist culture. Individualistic cultures associated with higher expressivity norms - especially for positive emotions. |
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Do all cultures have a word for emotion? |
no - this shows that their concept of emotion is different than ours. Even in cultures that do have a word, it might not mean the same thing. |