Psychology 2210A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Emotional Contagion, Order Of Friars Minor Capuchin, Aposematism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2210A/B
• Professor: Krista Macpherson

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Distress calls: mother rats respond to distress calls of isolated pups, mother rats may be attributing distress to the rat pup or it may just be responding to the stimulus. Theres no reduction in stress in response to being consoled. Being in a crowd and one individual starts to panic, everyone panics: sympathetic concern a concern for other individual. Not that you have the same emotional state but being concerned about the other individual. If both feeling panic then going to comfort the person: empathic perspective taking consideration of goals of another. Summary: the mechanisms probably vary across species, behaviour and context. Human prosocial behaviour may use similar mechanisms, or it may be the results of entirely different mechanisms. What is communication the transmission of information between individuals through communicative signals produced by a sender to a receiver. What is a signal: active, courtship displays, aggressive displays, passive, aposematism colour that"s meant to be a warning.