emotion Flashcards
What is emotion:
discrete momentary experiences in a specific situation
What are the parts of an emotion?
Feelings
thoughts/cognition
Physiology
Brain activation
Nonverbal expression
The emotion process
Antecedent event>cognitive appraisal of event(way you interpret event)->emotional experience(physiology feelings)->emotional expression(facial expressions,behaviors)
Which personality traits predict happiness?
Extraversion and neuroticism
Alternative model
Personality specific behavior->situations that might lead to happiness->emotional response
Does personality affect a person’s emotional response to a situation or does personality determine which situations a person engages in
personality affects a person’s emotional response to a situation
Definitions of happiness
Aristotle: goal of life, attained through virtuosity
Rosseau:hedonism (do what makes you happy)
James: accomplishments
Cognitive-affective approach
Judgement of life’s satisfactions
How satisfied are you with your life?
AND tendency to experience positive vs negative emotions
Martin seligman:
authentic happiness is based on living a life filled with purpose and meaning
Daniel kahneman
Positive (not negative)emotions
Do what feels good (hedonism)
Happy facts
Average person is
Happy 65% of time
Neutral 15%
Unhappy 20%
only difference between countries
What makes some countries happier than others
Subjective well being and individualism
Culture is more predictive of happiness than wealth (stronger correlation)
Why are poorer countries less happy?
health care and civil rights
What about within countries? Are poorer people more unhappy?
not really, unless they dont have basic necessities
neg correlation between happy and inequality
As inequality increased, happiness has gone down (due to perception that you cant trust others due to inequality)
Good life
For daily satisfaction, go for hedonism
Boost positive affect
For life satisfaction go for eudemonia
Emotions don’t matter
Meaning purpose matters
Trait anxiety(neuroticism)
Moody, touchy, irritable, complaining
Easily upset
Biological origins
of neuroticism
Stable across lifespan
Cross-cultural
More active BIS
cognitive bias in neuroticism
Recall more self-relevant negative information
Recall being sick more often, may get sick more often
Depression
Diathesis-stress model
Pre-existing vulnerability gets activated
Genetic evidence
Beck’s cognitive theory
Cognitive triad: depressing view of self, the world, and future
Overgeneralization (global attributions)
Personalizing (internal attributions)
Catastrophizing (stable attributions; the worst will always happen)
Anger proneness and hostility
Tendency to respond to everyday frustrations with anger and aggression
Biological model: type A
**Cardiologist noticed personality similarities among coronary heart disease patients and type A
explanation of type a
it is the hostility that linked to coronory heart disase
pride proness
Two facet theory:
1)Authentic pride
2)Hubristic pride(absence of achieving something)
