6. Emotions

Question 1

What are the 3 functions of emotions? (IIC)

Answer 1

intrapersonal - how we act/think
interpersonal - social/others behaviour towards us
cultural

Question 2

3 parts of emotions: (eg arousal)

Answer 2

arousal, expressions, feelings/experiences

Question 3

What is Lowenstein’s evolutionary idea of emotions?

Answer 3

falling in love/predators - emotions may help us survive due to giving us the ‘right’ responses in situations

Question 4

What’s is the cognitive bias, the hot-cold empathy gap?

Answer 4

underestimating the effect of feelings on behaviour/attitudes etc

Question 5

What does Alloy say about depressed people on their view of the self and others?

Answer 5

depressed people:
- view themselves more accurately
- view others more positively

Question 6

What’s misattribution of arousal?

Answer 6

mistaking what’s caused arousal

Question 7

What’s the study for misattribution of arousal and who did it?

Answer 7

bridge study
feelings as info model
Dutton

Question 8

What were the findings for the bridge study?

Answer 8

mistook arousal for attraction
39% called woman - wobbly bridge
9% - normal bridge

Question 9

Damage to what impairs ability to learn from mistakes?

Answer 9

ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Question 10

Tracy and Robins - social groups:

Answer 10

pride - motivates
shame/guilt/embarrassment

Question 11

What did Kraut find at bowling?

Answer 11

emotions - social
facial expressions more profound when turning round from bowl than watching it first

Question 12

What’s the EASI (emotions as social info model) about?

Answer 12

close relationship to someone - read their expressions - get the vibe - change our behaviour

Question 13

What’s emotion contagion?

Answer 13

others’ emotions are contagious

Question 14

What was Kramer’s Facebook contagion study?

Answer 14

reduced pos/neg emotional posts in 700k’s feed
manipulated the emotions people expressed in their statuses

Question 15

What’s proof that emotions aren’t just copied?

Answer 15

blind vs not blind reactions to winning/losing at olympics was the same

Question 16

Some cultural examples:

Answer 16

lower-class - more sadness etc
american - more positive than negative, Japan - equal

Question 17

What is it called when an emotion can be referred to in many different ways?

(people may experience the same emotion differently)

Answer 17

hypercognized - levy

Question 18

What does Feldman say about constructed emotion?

Answer 18

maybe there isn’t a universal emotional experience, as how do we know if we all experience something the same way? - emotions are based on experience

Question 19

What’s the difference between how east-asians and Americans ideally want to feel? (Tsai)

Answer 19

east-asians - calm, low arousal
americans - excited, high arousal