PSB-2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Autonomic Nervous System, Facial Expression, Feeling
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Emotion and aggression: physical phenomena associated with emotion reflect 2 functions, motivate response to stimuli. Activation of autonomic nervous system, etc: communicate. Dar(cid:449)i(cid:374)"s theor(cid:455) of the e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) of e(cid:373)otio(cid:374: the expressions of emotions in man and animals (1872, emotions evolve from behaviors that indicate what an animal is likely to do next. If emotional signals are beneficial, they will evolve to more effectively communicate and may lose their original meaning. Threat displays intimidate victims without the costs and risks of fighting. People in different cultures (even isolated environments) use same patterns of movements of facial muscles to express various emotions. But can be modulated: men tend to not express as much emotion, women tend to increase amount of emotional expression. Able to affect the autonomic nervous system & the experience of. Facial expression and feedback emotion: maybe for empathy: see an emotional expression imitate it feel it.
