PSYC 3210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Emotion Classification, Autonomic Nervous System, Cultural Universal

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3210
• Professor: Taslim Alani

Document Summary

Psychology 3210 chapter 9: culture and emotion. Subsequent research after the original universality studies: the same facial musculature that exists in adult humans exists in newborn infants, and is fully functional at birth. Other sources of evidence for the universality of basic emotions and their possible biological. Bases: basic emotions are also universally recognized, research has also demonstrated the universal recognition of a seventh basic emotion contempt. Universality in physiological responses to emotion: each of the universal emotions, when signaled by the universal expressions, had a distinct and discrete physiological signature in the autonomic nervous system. Universality in emotion antecedents: emotion antecedents: the events or situations that trigger or elicit an emotion, e. g. losing a loved one may be an antecedent of sadness. Universality in emotion appraisal processes: appraisal is the process by which people evaluate the events, situations, or occurrences that lead to their having emotions.