PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paul Ekman, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Dog Meat
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Psyc 2120 social psychology lecture week 8. Emotions are an important part of our lives. We feel emotions about specific people and events. Focus of emotional experience = intentional object. Usually have a clear sense of the thing that caused the emotion: the object our our emotion is an intentional emotion. Disgust avoid contamination or illness: e. g. life/death function. Fear maintain physical safety: e. g. feeling afraid might signal something we should not pursue. Anger right social wrongs and restore justice: e. g. feeling as though there has been an injustice. Guilt make amends when we harmed others: e. g. motivated to make amends, apologizing to someone we have wronged. Gratitude reward others/giving thanks for their cooperative actions. Compassion show concern for and help others. Evolutionary approach: emotions enabled adaptive responses to threats to survival and to enable people to form relationships critical to gene replication. Cultural approach: emotions influenced by roles, institutions and socialization practices that vary across cultures.
