PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 37: Diminishing Returns

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

10 basic emotions: joy, interest-excitement, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, guilt emotional experience is placed along 2 dimensions positive-versus-negative valance and the low-versus-high arousal. Anger facing a threat, anger triggers fight anger can be a response to someone"s perceived misdeeds; it can also be the result of small hassles and blameless annoyances chronic hostility is linked to heart disease. Boys tend to walk way from the situation or work it off w/ exercise. More often expressing anger breeds more anger behaviour feedback angry outbursts may be reinforcing and therefore habit forming. Happy ppl perceive the world as safer and feel more confident; they make decisions more easily and are more cooperative/tolerant. Happiness does not just feel good, it does good feel-good, do-good phenomenon ppl"s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood subjective well-being self-perceived happiness or satisfaction w/ life. The short life of emotional ups and downs.