Emotions Flashcards
What is an emotion?
Emotions arise in response to significant life events,
affecting multiple aspects:
emotions are
- short lived
- feeling-arousal-purposive-expressive phenomena
- to help adapt to challenges
- during important life events
What is the difference between emotions
and mood?
Antecendents:
- emotions are elicited by significant life events and their significance for our
well-being
- moods are elicited by ill-defined and often unknown processes
Action-specificity
- emotions influence mainly behaviour, moods cognition
Source and timesource
- emotions arise from shortlived events, and moods from mental events
What are emotions good for?
•Social functions
- Coping functions
Arnold
Anger, Aversion, courage, dejection,
desire, despair, fear, hate, hope, love,
sadness (11)
Ekman,
Friesen, and
Ellsworth
Fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise,
joy, more recently: contempt (7)
Frijda
Desire, happiness, interest, surprise,
wonder, sorrow (6)
Gray
Rage and terror, anxiety, joy (3)
Izard
Anger, contempt, disgust, distress, fear,
guilt, interest, joy, shame, surprise (10)
James
Fear, grief, love, rage (4)
McDougall
Anger, disgust, elation, fear, subjection,
tender-emotion, wonder (7)
Mowrer
Pain, pleasure (2)
Oatley and
Johnson-Laird
Anger, disgust, anxiety, happiness,
sadness (5)
Panksepp
Expectancy, fear, rage, panic (4)
Plutchik
Acceptance, anger, anticipation, disgust,
joy, fear, sadness, surprise (8)
