PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heart Rate, Anorexia Nervosa, Mortality Rate
25 Apr 2021
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Mental states or feelings associated with our evaluation of our experiences. Humans experience a small number of distinct emotions, even if they combine in complex ways. Emotions have biological roots and serve evolutionary functions. Emotions (limbic system) precede our thoughts about them (cortex) Happiness, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise, anger, and contempt (eyes are a big factor that is the same in all cultures) These combine to form secondary emotions e. g. , annoyance, contentment, schadenfreude- (means the feeling of happiness of someone"s downfall) Cultures differ in display rules, how and when to express emotion. Does not influence emotion itself, but instead its overt expression. Is how there are different emotions in a different culture like when you speak they have a different dialect (language) and emotions are different from culture to culture. Able to differentiate some primary emotions physiologically. Heart rate increases more with negative emotions than a positive one. The digestive system slows down with fear, speeds up with anger.
