PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Impact Bias, Blood Pressure, Thalamus
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Emotion: the feeling aspect of consciousness; characterized by a certain physical arousal, a certain behavior that reveals the emotion to the outside world, and an inner awareness of feelings. Display rules: learned ways of controlling displays of emotion in social setting. Adaptation- level phenomenon: tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level. Level of income: defined by our prior experience. Relative deprivation: perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself. The process by which people predict how they would feel in the future, after various positive and negative events. People have difficulty predicting their emotions in response to future events. People overestimate the duration of their emotional reactions (durability bias) Imaging alternative scenarios and outcomes that might have happened but did not. More likely in response to negative events. More likely when one is close to the other outcome (example: a lottery)
