PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Empathy Gap, Alexithymia, Affective Forecasting
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Emotions in intimate and social relationships: what is intimacy, emotions that promote intimacy, negative emotions in social relationships. Emotions and moral behaviour: are emotions good or bad for moral behaviour, predicting our behaviour in moral dilemmas. You don"t have to behave all proper and prim, you can relax around them. Student definitions of intimacy expectation: being understood while understanding the other"s emotions, thoughts or circumstances while passing no judgment. A feeling of unconditional acceptance. : knowledge, trust, commitment, unconditional acceptance and forgiveness. Knowing that your other will always listen, understand and support you. : feeling safe to talk about life problems that i would not be able to talk to anyone else about. knowledge. Emotions that foster intimacy: playfulness in conflict makes people more intimate and happy, compassionate love more generous, more cooperative, less revengeful, forgiveness relieves stress in a rela. 201 participants who had incurred interpersonal hurt at least 18 days prior to study.
