Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Facial Feedback Hypothesis, Heart Rate, Jon D. Levenson

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Atkinson

Document Summary

Whenever john sees june his heart starts to race his breathing rate goes up and pupil dilate. Freud: expression reduces experiences (tourneau and ellsworth 1979: highly aroused subjects show little expressiveness support freud) Others mostly supporting darwin: facial feedback hypothesis for example izard 1977. Emotion-provoking events perception (danger) perception of emotion (fear) bodily. Emotion-provoking events perception (danger) bodily arousal perception of emotion(fear) arousal. Changes in facial expression responsible for distinct emotion. Number of studies indicate that adopting appropriate expression yields emotion. Subjects asked to tense and relax muscles. Smile or frown afterward self-reported happiness is higher in smile group and self- reported anger higher in frown group. Holding a pencil in teeth or lips pencil in your lips can make you feel better. Heart rate is high: skin temperature is high also anger: if it is low: fear and sad. Note: ideal test evaluate patient with bilateral facial paralysis (really rare).