PSY331H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Bias, Mothers Talk, Conflicting Emotions
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System of ideas and practices that are held in common in a particular society. Lots of different communities that can create their own cultures - can create cultures in whatever group youre in. Gender differences in emotion, and specific emotion (which emotions are preferred) Falling in love concerns the whole family - unites family. Only recently has the idea of marrying for love. Is the love that people feel in those cultures the same as love for westerners. People are more likely to stress the negative aspects of love than westerners. Culture influencing how people talk about love - biological components that make how we think about love similar. Look at brains of chinese people (identical with westerners) - people who said they were madly in love (see what happened in their brains when they thought about their partner) Motivated goal state driven by a desire for union that"s emotional in nature - brain areas active thinking, craving, motivation, addiction.
