PSY 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Deindividuation, Groupthink, Implicit-Association Test
Document Summary
Emotions: brief, specific psychological and physiological responses that help humans meet goals, many of which are social. Appraisal processes: the ways people evaluate events and objects in their environment based on their relation to current goals. Care-relational themes: distinct themes, such as danger or offense or fairness, that define the core of each emotion. Primary appraisal stage: an initial, automatic positive or negative evaluation of ongoing events based on whether they are congruent or incongruent with an individual"s goals. Secondary appraisal stage: a subsequent evaluation in which people determine why they feel the way they do about an event, consider possible ways of responding to the event, and weigh future consequences of different courses of action. Principle of serviceable habits: charles darwin"s thesis that emotional expressions are remnants of full-blown behaviors that helped our primate and mammalian predecessors meet important goals in the past.
