Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Botulinum Toxin, Frontal Lobe, Facial Nerve Paralysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Tourangeau and ellsworth: highly aroused subjects show little expressiveness: supports freud but most evidence supports other side. Supporting darwin: facial feedback: updated james lange theory. Emotion provoking events perception danger perception of emotion (danger) bodily arousal. Emotion occurs at the very end as a result of arousal. Emotion provoking events perception dangers bodily arousal perception of emotion (fear) Changes in facial expressions responsible for distinct emotion. When asked to relax one will either smile or frown: self reported happiness is higher in some groups. Stimuli seen as funnier for a group that"s watching while smiling. Holding pencil in teeth or lips looks like smiling. Patient could not display emotions but did report feels about feeling emotional. Inject botox fmri scans before and after while displaying anger. Lower activity level in amygdala & brainstem after: this suggests the need for a facial feedback. Emotion provoking events appraisal bodily arousal emotion. Emotion provoking events perception (appraisal) bodily arousal (intensity) perception of emotion.