PSY331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nail Biting, Cortisol, Waking Hours
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Incentive function: encourages people to do what it is that makes that emotional state continue. Encoding and decoding: emotions are important for communication, ecoding (sender, the person whos making the expression, either in face or voice, decoder (receiver, the person who interprets or understands the facial expression, ability to recognize expression. Example: flirting: social interactions, layer of emotions, ma(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) displa(cid:455) (cid:373)i(cid:373)i(cid:272)r(cid:455) (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:455)"re flirti(cid:374)g, all occurring beneath conscious behaviour. Types of nonverbal behaviour: emotion expression is one form of nonverbal behaviour, emblems, gestures that directly translate into words, e. g. peace sign, thumbs up. Makers of emotion expression: last a few seconds, expressions are typically quick. Involve involuntary muscle actions: many authentic emotions look different when we fake them, e. g. smiling can be genuine and faked, we see parallels in animals, sense of embarrassment covering face. Ek(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s study of facial expression: 6 basic emotional expressions, had the idea of the 6 emotions that are universally recognized.
