Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Boto, Frontal Lobe, Neurohormone

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Darwin: expression intensifies experience: supprting darwin: facial feedback hypothesis. Freud: expression reduces experience: tourangeau & ellsworth (1979) Emotion provoking events -> perception (danger) -> perception of emotion (fear) -> bodily. Emotion-provoking events -> perception (danger) -> bodily arousal -> perception of emotion (fear) Changes in facial expression responsible for distinct emotion. Number of studies indicate that adopting appropriate expression yields emotion. Facial muscles are responsible for your expression of emotion. Stimuli seen as funnier for smile group etc Experience emotion by changing your facial expression. Holding pencil in teeth or lips to mimic emotional expressions evokes emotional perceptions. If heart rate is low -> emotions: happiness, disgust, surprise. If heart rate is high + skin temp high: anger. If heart rate is high + skin temp low: fear or sadness. Patient (f. p. ) could not display emotions, but did report feeling emotional. Must have facial activity to have an extreme emotional response.