emotion Flashcards
why can’t we put emotions aside and act later?
immediate effects of emotional states render us out of control and incapable of waiting for a neutral state LOEWENSTEIN
why is suppression bad
cognitively costly, impair memory for details of what triggered the emotion RICHARDS
why is reappraisal a good emotion management tactic
récuses self reported negative feelings in response to negative events, and mitigates physiological and neural responses to those events JAMIESON
OCÉAN
oxford centre for emotions and affective neuroscience - aims to understand why some people are resilient and able to withstand what life throws at them
- links with stress vulnerability model
- attribution
two factor theory of emotion
emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label: when an emotion is felt, physiological arousal occurs and the person uses the immediate environment to search for emotional cues to label this arousal. this can cause misinterpretation of emotions. when the brain does not know why it feels an emotion if relies on external simulation for cues on how to label it
self perception theory
DARYL BEM: people develop their attitudes by observing their own behaviour, and concluding what attitudes must have caused it
discounting the future
human instinct to give preference to immediate rewards
frame problem
when deciding between a range of possible actions, most are eliminated a priori: «search hypothermia of emotion» emotions are essential catalysts in rational decision making EVANS
somatic marker hypothesis
study of patients suffering damage to the «ventromedial prefrontal cortex» and control played a game where objective is to win as much money as possible. BÊCHERA found that those with brain damage understood risks just as well, but ended up bankrupt far more.
VMPFC is responsible for processing risk and fear
antonio domasio studies
patients with injury to prefrontal and somatosensory cortices of the brain had a lesser capacity for emotion and had a diminished ability to make intelligent decisions
callhan and emotional discomfort
it drives a person to look past proposed argument and dig deeper
made possible by non-verbally encoded interpersonal experiences, and so they shape emotional and moral sentiments though they cannot be verbally expressed
slovic on analytic and experimental systems
analytic (conscious and deliberate moral processes) and experimental (past experience and emotion related association) collaborate to make up human capacity for decision making
cognitive dissonance is good?
avoids uncomfortable truths but replacing them with comforting fictions, since the brain is incapable of holding inconsistent beliefs. this creates a loop of negative feedback which lifts our spirits. blaming circumstance though sometimes irrational allows us to recover with intact self esteem: inability to do so is correlated with depression eg attribution
why do emotional responses come first
brain is branched in such a way that amygdala is able to respond to stimuli before the neocortex
ruling class fiction
self justification of a dominant class to put itself at ease in mistreating another group; arrogance, rationalises it’s dominance to convince mistreatment is universally beneficial
