PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emotional Contagion, External Variable, Operational Definition
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Emotional contagion": the tendency to converge emotionally with another. How do we measure people"s emotions?physiological correlates (heart rate, etc. ) Surveys, questionnaires (usually the best way to determine someone"s emotions) Have conversations and observe, judge behaviors, facial expressions, etc. measure hormones (serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol, etc. ) Operational definition: definition of a variable in terms of a process used in your research. How did you feel in the past week? . Rarely some of the time most/all of the time occasionally. I felt that i was just as good as other people. However, you cannot know that every person views the scale the same way. Days absent from school and gpa: negatively correlated. Research generally shows a moderately positive correlation between friendship closeness and mood similarity. No, we know they go together (they are positively correlated), but we do not know what causes this correlation. Reverse causation: we do not know which variable affects the other.
