Emotion Flashcards
What are Emotions?
Mental state or feeling associated with our evaluation of our experiences.
Discrete Emotions theory
Theory that humans experience a small number of distinct emotions that are rooted in our biology.
Primary Emotions
Small number (perhaps seven) of emotions believed by some theorists to be cross-culturally universal.
- happiness
- sadness
- surprise
- anger
- disgust
- fear
- contempt
Display Rules
Cross-cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions.
Cognitive theories of emotions
Theories proposing that emotions are products of thinking.
James-Lange theory of emotion
Theory proposing that emotions result from our interpretations of our bodily reactions to stimuli.
Somatic marker theory
Theory proposing that we use our “gut reactions” to help us determine how we should act.
Cannon-Bard theory
Theory proposing that an emotion-provoking event leads simultaneously to an emotion and to bodily reactions
Two-factor theory
Theory proposing that emotions are produced by an undifferentiated stated of arousal along with an attribution (explanation) of that arousal.
Facial feedback hypothesis
Theory that blood vessels in the face feed back temperature information in the brain, altering our experience of emotions.
Nonverbal leakage
Unconscious spillover of emotions into nonverbal behaviour.
Emblems
Gestures that convey conventional meanings recognized by members of a culture or group.
Proxemics
Study of personal space.
Edward Hall (1966) Personal distance is correlated positively with emotional distance. 1. Public distance. 2. Social distance 3. Personal distance. 4. Intimate distance.
Pinocchio response
Supposedly perfect physiological or behavioural indicator of lying.
- blood pressure
- respiration
- skin conductance
Guilty knowledge test (GKT)
Alternative to the polygraph test that relies on the premise that criminals harbour concealed knowledge about the crime that innocent people don’t.
