PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Emotion Classification, Social Emotions, Collectivism
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Evolutionary vs. cultural perspectives on emotion: natural selection happens when, within species competition, within species differences, phenotype tied to genotype. Environment favours some heritable variations over the others: emotional expressions are adaptations, they are actions that helped our ancestors survive, they coincided with emotions our ancestors felt, evolutions and culture, primitive urges shape culture. Language: culture controls primitive urges, culture changes but sometimes our bodies and minds can"t keep up there are limits to evolutionary adaptation mcdonald"s. Affective (emotions) science: basic emotions theory vs. appraisal emotions theory. Seeking, rage, fear, lust, care, panic, play. The emotions that we experience go further than the basic 6. Being kept from something you desire or want. Yet a wealth of evidence shows emotions, emotional expressions and emotional disorders differ by generation and by culture. Contradiction, opposites are often consistent and both true. Covariation, events are interrelated in complex fields or systems. Comproprise so that truth may lie in the synthesis of opposites.
