Chapter 5 Flashcards
Emotion and Well-Being
Emotion
A brief, specific response, involving appraisals, experiences, expressions, and physiology, that helps people meet goals, including social goals
Appraisal
The interpretation an individual gives to a situation that gives rise to the experience of the emotion
Focal emotion
An emotion that is especially common within a particular culture
Emotion regulation
The ability to alter one’s own emotional state. It may involve behaviors such as rethinking a challenging situation to reduce anger or anxiety, hiding visible signs of sadness or fear, or focusing on reasons to feel happy or calm
Reappraisal
The process of reinterpreting the causes of an emotion and its meaning for the individual
Acceptance
Adopting an open and welcoming attitude to one’s emotions
Suppression
An emotional regulation strategy by which people attenuate the outward signs of the emotion
Social functional theory
The broad idea that emotions coordinate social interactions in a way that enable people to meet social opportunities and challenges
Broaden-and-build hypothesis
The idea that positive emotions broaden thoughts and actions, helping people build social resources
Affective forecasting
Predicting future emotions, such as whether an event will result in happiness, anger, or sadness and for how long
Immune neglect
The tendency for people to underestimate their capacity to be resilient in responding to difficult life events, which leads them to overestimate the extent to which life’s problems will reduce their personal well-being
Focalism
A tendency to focus too much on a central aspect of an event while neglecting the possible impact of peripheral considerations or extraneous events
Duration neglect
The relative unimportance of the length of an emotional experience, whether pleasurable of unpleasant, in retrospective assessments of the overall experience
