Psychology; culture and emotion (7)
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- Antecedent
- events or situations that trigger or elicit an emotion
- Basic Emotion Theory
- most languages possess limited sets of central emtion-labeling words referring to a small number of commonly occuriring emotions, assumes that all emotions are derived from the limited st of basic emotions
- Neutralizatoin
- showing nothing
- Manifest content
- actual event (having someone cut you off in traffic)
- Non-basic emotions
- seen as context specific emotions or blends of basic emotions
- Univerality of Antecedents
- studies have found similarities in antecedents acroos cultures
- Masking
- mask or conceal feelings by showing something else
- Emotion
- 1. Expressive Behavior 2. Subjective Experience 3. Physiological Reactions 4. Cognitions 5. Motor behavior
- Universal Emotions
- Ekman's Neurocultural theory of emotion: there is a distinctive facial expression associated with each basic feeling state. this is culturally universal
- latent content
- the psychological meaning associated with the manifes content (e.g. being cut off means injustice and disrespect) 1. research suggests universality in the latent content of emotion
- Qualificatoin
- show the emotion but with a reason or excuse for it
- Simulatoin
- show an emotion when really dont feel it
- 6 Basic Emotions
- anger, saddness, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust
- Theories of Emotion
- 1. James-Lange Theory 2. Cannon-Bard Theory 3. Schachter's Two-Factor Theory
- Ekman (study 4)
- Do people spontaneously display the facial expresssions according to different emotions? No differences in facial expressions between japanese and american students. BOTH EXPRESSIONAND RECOGNITION OF EMOTION IS UNIVERSAL
- FACS
- 1. Analyzes fcial movemnts 2.codes muscles involved in any facial expression 3. scores yield highly accurate pre- and postdictions of the emotions signalted to obervers in more than fifteen cultures, Western and non-Western, literate and preliterate.
- amplification
- express more than actually felt
- Ekman (study3)
- Asked tribe members to make facial expressions according to different emotions. Americans could label the emotions of what the tribes where trying to do
- Ekman (Study 2)
- preliterate tribes in new guinea, high agreement with inductrialized countries. told a story about a person then had to pick emotion
- Ekman (study 1)
- showed facial expressions to people from 5 countires, high agreement in interpreting 6 emotions:anger, sadness, happiness, surprise, fear, disgust
- Display Rules
- 1. Deamplification, express less then actually felt 2, Amplification, express more than acutally felt 3. Neutralization, show nothing 4. Qualificatoin, show the emotion but with a reason or excuse for it 5. Masking, mas or conceal feelings by showing something else 6. Simulation, show an emotion when really dont feel it.
- Deamplification
- express less than actually felt