Ch14 - Emotion

Question 0

Ekman

Answer 0

• cross-cultural ratings of facial displays
• cross-cultural measurements of facial movement when expressing diff emotions
• cross-culture infant expression study

Question 1

Autonomic nervous system: 2 elements

Answer 1

Sympathetic - arousal
and
parasympathetic - other

Question 2

blind children’s expressions support basic emotions

Answer 2

Medicus et al 1994

Question 3

Verbal labels

Answer 3

Scherer and colleagues ; 7 emotions studied

Question 4

‘Modal emotions’

Answer 4

A number of emotions cluster under a common theme: Scherer (based on verbal emotion labels)

Question 5

Differences in cross-cultural emotion x3

Answer 5

• complex emotions (number n type)
• triggers for emotions
• social acceptability rules for emotional display

Question 6

Dimensional approach to emotion

Answer 6

Lang and colleagues: valence (positive vs negative and arousal (calm vs aroused)

Question 7

If emotions are ‘basic’, why is there disagreement about what they are?

Answer 7

Ortony and Turner (1990); argued that ‘basic’ emotion idea doesn’t have much explanatory power (what emotions is frustration composed of? It seems more like a component of anger itself), and that it is more useful to think about the components of emotion, e.g. anger is composed of problem solving(furrowed brow); aggression(gritted teeth); lifted eyelids (visual input)

Question 8

Advantage of dimensional approach to emotion

Answer 8

Suggests something about how different emotions relate to each other; explains how diff languages could develop diff words to express subtly different mixes of emotion experience

Question 9

Problem with dimensional approach

Answer 9

Nostalgia!

Horror movies, roller coaster rides, extreme sports

Question 10

Functions of emotions x5

Answer 10

Alter goals
Mobilise physiological resources
Communication
Information
But why phenomenological - feeling?