Emotions and personality Flashcards
what is emotion ?
- monmoterary/temporary experinced in a specific situation
-traits,or dispositional tendacies to chronically experience certain feelings
-moods,temperament,emotional disorder
are are the parts of emotions
-feelings
-thoughrs
physiology
-brain activation
non verbal expression
the emotional process
event>cognitive appraisal event>emotional experience (physiology feelings)>emotional expression
how do we regulate emotions ?
by manipulating our cognitive apraisal or emotional experience or emotional expression
which personality traits predict happiness
extraversion and neuroticism
does personality affect a person’s emotional response to a situation
or
does personality determine which situations a person engages in?
probably the first one,
placed in the same situation, extraverts and neurotics have different emotional responses
*Extraverts become happier from pleasant photos
* Neurotics become more upset from unpleasant
photos
when do emotions become personality traits?
the stable tendacy to experience certain feelings or have certain emotional reactions
what was aristotles view of happiness?
being good bring happiness
what does Rousseau view happiness
hendoism: doing what feels good
how does reserch defines happines?
-Cognitive-affective Approch : judgment of life satisfaction AND tendacy to experience positive vs negative emotions
Martin Seligman view happines as
Authentic happiness is
based on living a life filled with purpose
and meaning
Daniel Kahneman view happines as
positive emotions (hedoism)
happiness facts
-their is no difference in happines in gender or age
what makes some countries more happy then others ?
collectivism/individualism and wealth
poor countries:
-don’t have health care
-civil rights
are poor people within a country more unhappy?
-only if they can not by necessities(food,shelter,healthcare)
-rich people are not much happier then poor people
Oishi,kebesire and Dienere
they examned happiness and income inequalities in the US
-found negative correlation between happiness and inequality(less inequality more happiness)
-this was due to perceived unfairness among the poorest
happiness and set-points
emotions change in response to major life events
but they quickly return to a basic-set
(average set point : more happy then neutral
Zheng,Plomin and Stumm
-genetic reserch on trait happiness
-twin studies
found:
-variation in traits negative affect (53) due to genetics
- variation in traits positive affect is due to (52) shared environment
hedoism
the sum of plasent moments
Eudemonia
the life well-lived;meaning and purpose
if asked your daily satisfaction
use hendoism : boost positive affect,decrese negative affect
id asked your life satisfection
use eudemonia:meaning/purpose in life is the most important (not emotion)
what are 3 umplesent emotions?
anger.depression and anxiety
trait anxiety
-moody, touchy,irritable,complaning
-easily upset
biological origins
-stable across lifespan
-cross culture
-more active in BIS
-recall more self-relevant negative information
-recall being sick more often
