PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Asian Americans, Physical Attractiveness, Tagula Island

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3121
• Professor: Kathleen Biard

Document Summary

Gender in the experience and expression of emotion. Women use emotions, men use rational thought (an emotional double-standard) Display rules are over learned habits about who can show what emotion to whom and when they can show it: make it possible to experience one emotion, but display another (or none at all) These stereotypes do not apply to all emotions (men are more often associated with anger) Men and women experience emotions with similar frequencies, although they differ in which emotions: males excitement, calm, females anxiety, sadness. Nurturing behaviours of mothers: very darwinian, determined by biological factors (reinforces intellectual inferiority, largely insensitive to environment or experiences) The concept of instinct fell into disfavour: lack of empirical support (belief in material instinct continues) Series of studied by harlow: deprived baby monkeys of their mothers, observed the effects. Found social isolation associated with abnormal behaviours: contact with other monkeys appeared to be critical (rather than mothering, care-giving is dependent on experience.