PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hedonic Treadmill, Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Impact Bias
4 May 2016
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Humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that can combine in complex ways. Emotional expressions may be the by-products of innate motor programs. Primary emotions - cross-culturally universal emotions: happiness, disgust, sadness, fear, surprise, contempt, anger. Secondary emotions reactions to our emotions: happiness smile, sadness tears, etc. Emotions are products of thinking, not innate motor programs. There are as many different kinds of emotions as thoughts; there are no discrete emotions. James-lange theory of emotion: emotions result from our interpretations of our bodily reactions to stimuli, eye shark, scared face, brain -> fear. Patients with higher spinal cord injuries reported less emotion than those with lower spinal cord injuries. Somatic marker theory: we use our gut reactions to gauge how we should act. Cannon-bard theory: an emotion-provoking event leads simultaneously to an emotional and bodily reaction. Two-factor theory: emotions are produced by an undifferentiated arousal, with an attribution of that arousal.
