PSC 154 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Social Emotions
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In this chapter, we discussed nonverbal, verbal, sensory, cultural, and artistic communications of emotions. There are five types of nonverbal behavior: emblems, regulators, self-adaptors, and displays of emotions. Darwin had three principles about facial expressions of emotions: principle of serviceable habits, principle of antithesis, and principle of nervous discharge. The six primary emotions anger, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, and surprise are universal. Emotions such as contempt, pride and shame are considered to be secondary emotions, and are fairly universal. Love, desire, and sympathy also secondary emotions serve as a way of furthering our social and romantic relationships. Moving onto vocal communication, we learned about teasing and laughter. We also learned about vocal bursts, which are brief, non- word utterances we use to communicate emotions. For example, when we are fearful, we might scream or gasp, or when we are angry, we may growl. Some vocal bursts are universal, but not all. Primates are known to use vocal bursts as well.
