PSY331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Life Satisfaction, Duration Neglect, Hypnosis
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Emotions help us prioritize behaviour: reflexes, fixed action patterns, instincts. Emotions are organizers: set the brain into a particular mode of organization, or readiness, and the urge to act in line with this readiness. Emotions offer information: carry information that enables us to make mental models of events, their possible causes, and implications, use information to decide what they want to do next and how they want to react in the world. How do emotions affect our cognition: perspectives in cognition, influences of emotion on. Emotions act as heuristics in complex decisions: weather study. Called people in illinois on a cloudy day or a sunny day. In one group they asked how satisfied they were with their life. In one group they asked hows the weather and then asked how satisfied they were with their life. Life satisfaction was almost equal in second condition: bridge study. Scary bridge vs safe bridge and has men cross the bridge.
