PSYB10H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7.docx
11 Dec 2013
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A brief physiological and psychological response to an event that is felt subjectively and prepares a person for action. Most studied examples: positive emotions, self-conscious emotions. Sense of appreciation: contentment low in arousal its like happy without and intense feeling, amusement. People try to understand what makes us laugh: desire intense reward focused positive emotion. Usually people ignore risks when they are focused on what they want to achieve love. Many people think this should not be an motion this is because love seems to be sustained over time. Self-conscious emotions complex emotions elicited by the self. A sense of accomplishment: shame involved when something wrong is done involves an anger component. People that are shame prone, tend to have negative social outcomes for themselves: guilt. Emotions are short lived: real emotions: between 500ms- 4s fake emotions: between 1-10 s.
