PSY220H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Paul Ekman, Periaqueductal Gray, Orbitofrontal Cortex
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Sympathy breakthroughs are common during combat scenarios. Sympathy is a powerful trigger for altruistic behaviour. Emotions are important guide of thoughts and actions. Once set in motion, emotions trigger action: they impel people to respond to specific goals, threats, and opportunities in the environment. Although emotions can disrupt sound reasoning and make people behave irrationally, they can also aid in reason and are vital to healthy relationships, sound functioning, and effective pursuit of the good life. Emotions: brief, specific psychological and physiological responses that help humans meet goals, many of which are social. Facial expressions of emotion typically last 1-5 seconds. The physiological responses to emotion last dozens of seconds or minutes. Emotions are specific: we feel emotions about specific people or events. What our emotion is focuses on can be called its intentional object. ". Emotions typically help individuals achieve their social goals. They motivate us to act in a certain way, and often result in stronger social relationships.
