PSY331H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stanley Schachter, Social Constructionism, Walter Bradford Cannon
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When animals look angry by showing their teeth, hiss etc. Mother noticing her babies distress through her cry: emotions help us navigate through our social world, humans emotions are the language of humans, emotions have evolved to help us solve adaptive/environmental problems, ex. Disgust helps us make sure we don"t get something bad into our body. Tells our body and tells others that something is not edible: emotions activate adaptive, bodily and physiological responses, help us avoid survival and reproductive threats, ex. In order to avoid eating toxins we have been adapted to avoid bitter tastes: ex. We have a tendency to like sweet things vitamin c = an essential element we cannot produce on our own: ex. We like facial symmetry this indicates health: ex. We want fertile mates tend to like mates who are youthful since this represents fertility: ex.
