PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Collectivism, Asian Americans, Marcel Mauss
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Natural selection happens when: within-species competition, within-species differences, phenotype tied to genotype. Environment favors some heritable variations over others. E. g. , moths changed color over several years to adapt to environment. Emotional expressions are adaptations: they are actions that helped our ancestors survive, they coincided with emotions our ancestors felt, we are conditioned to have these emotional expressions. Evolution and culture: primitive urges shape culture. E. g. , language the urge to communicate with one another: bidirectional relationship between emotion and culture. Culture can influence emotion: culture controls primitive urges, culture changes but sometimes our bodies and minds can"t keep up; there are limits to evolutionary adaptation. E. g. , overeating in the past was a primitive urge. What"s adaptive in one culture may not be adaptive in another culture. Emotions are evolutionarily significant: 6 basic emotions: fear, disgust, sadness, happiness, surprise, anger, complex emotions that promote social bonding.
