PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Individualism, Asian Americans, Display Rules
2 Mar 2017
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An emotion can be loosely defined as biological, cognitive, and behavioural reactions, as well as subjective feelings of pleasure or displeasure in response to personally significant events. James-lange theory (1884: emotion is embedded into bodily experience. You do not jump up or clap hands because you are happy, rather when you do these actions, you then become happy (the bodily experience comes first and then you label it with emotion/reaction) Subjective experience comes first, labelling comes after. Cannon-bard theory (1927: various life situations can simultaneously elicit both an emotional experience and bodily responses, such as increased blood pressure or sweaty palms. The emotional experience and bodily response can happen independently of each other, or together (they don"t need one another to occur) Schachter-singer theory (1962: there are two crucial elements of emotional experience: physiological arousal and the cognitive interpretation of this arousal. Cognitive could match or mismatch with physical arousal.
