PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Cognition, Calmness, Positive Psychology
6 Nov 2018
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Don"t read emotions and social relationships + emotions and social cognition. Highly stylized, culturally specific ways of expressing particular emotions. Participants from us and india judged others" facial expressions. Both prototypical displays and more culturally specific displays. Some emotions are more coming in a particular culture. Experienced and expressed with greater frequency and intensity. China has more than 100 words to describe these emotions. Olympic athletes from interdependent cultures show more intense expressions of shame. Emotions that promote cultural ideals are more valued. Culturally specific rules that govern how, when, and to whom people express emotion. Emotion expression may be the same, but ways of expressing it may be different. Whether it"s okay or not to display negative facial expressions. Manipulations: some participants watched film in the presence of an experimenter. But health is more than the absence of illness. Similarly, most traditional emotion research has focused on negative emotions. Only two positive emotions that are cross-culturally recognizable.
