ATS1262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ingroups And Outgroups, Interpersonal Attraction, Life Satisfaction
Week 9 Emotion & Affect
Emotion: Conscious state that includes an evaluative reaction to some event
Physiological arousal, expressive behaviour, conscious experience
Theories of emotion
Common sense theory
James-Lange theory
Cannon-Bard theory
Schachter- singer theory
Common sense theory
Stimulus- conscious experience- physiological arousal
James-Lange theory
Stimulus- physiological arousal- conscious experience
-Not confirmed by physiological evidence
-James Lange theory probably not correct, but gave rise to Facial Feedback
hypothesis
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
Strack et al. (1988)
Participants watching cartoons
Pen between teeth (smile) or between lips (frown)
Strong version: expression cause emotions (most studies-weak effect)
Weaker version: expressions modify the intensity of emotions
Cannon- Bard theory
Stimulus –conscious experience
- Physiological arousal
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Week 9 Emotion & Affect
Schachter-Singer theory (Cognitive Labelling theory)
Misattribution of arousal in attraction
Suspension Bridge study (Dutton and Aron 1974)
Men interviewed by attractive woman
Standing on either a high or low suspension bridge
Findings
Men on the high bridge
-Greater attraction than
Low bridge
When interviewer was male
Conclusion: Love is basically a state of physiological arousal that you label as “love”
The bridge study suggests that people can transfer feat into love
Much more likely positive to positive
Negative to negative
Biological basis of human emotion: affective drives
Human brain
Mouse brain
Lower brain vs cortex
Lower brain- all vertebrates
Cortex- most mammals, varying in size
Lower brain- emotions produced
Cortex- analysis of emotions
Affective drives
-Occurs in lower brain
Drivers of emotional behaviour
Humans and other mammals
Also may be in birds and reptiles, but there is less research
Does not mean that animals subjectively experience emotions identically to
humans- but that we all have the same basic neurological processes
Not mutually exclusive
All CAPS- To differentiate from the associated, subjective emotional
experience
SEEKING: curiosity, approach behaviours
With positive emotions- sense of purpose
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Document Summary
Emotion: conscious state that includes an evaluative reaction to some event. James lange theory probably not correct, but gave rise to facial feedback hypothesis. Pen between teeth (smile) or between lips (frown) Strong version: expression cause emotions (most studies-weak effect) Weaker version: expressions modify the intensity of emotions. Suspension bridge study (dutton and aron 1974) Standing on either a high or low suspension bridge. Conclusion: love is basically a state of physiological arousal that you label as love . The bridge study suggests that people can transfer feat into love. Also may be in birds and reptiles, but there is less research. Does not mean that animals subjectively experience emotions identically to humans- but that we all have the same basic neurological processes. All caps- to differentiate from the associated, subjective emotional experience. With negative emotions- impetus to change situation. Can resemble aggression, but all players are enjoying themselves.
