PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Emotion Classification, Margaret Mead, Emotion Recognition
10 Dec 2014
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Emotions as evolved information-processing systems: emotions, transient neurophysiological reactions to events that have consequences for our welfare and require an immediate behavioural response, feelings. Rapid info processing systems that evolved to help us act with minimal conscious thinking or deliberation: emotions are elicited as we scan our environments for events that may have consequences to our welfare o. It triggers an emotion so that we can react and adapt quickly and efficiently: emotions only last a few seconds and different from moods, they are functional--> tell us something important about relationship to emotion-eliciting stimulus. Facial expressions of emotion like other behaviours are biologically innate. Instead, facial expressions of emotion had to be learned, much like a language: ekman and friesen + izard in 60s, first set of methodologically sound studies, conducted universality studies. Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise: one problem relatively modern photographs, ekman, sorenson, friesen, 1969. All the cultures included in the research were literate, industrialized, and.
