Emotions - social psychology Flashcards
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Traditional psychological approach:
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- views emotions as inherent/internal feeling
- set of universal emotions
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What are the basic emotions outlined by Ekman?
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anger sadness fear happiness surprise disgust
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neuroscience approach:
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different parts of the brain produce different emotions
- lab experiments
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cognitive approach:
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- connection between emotions and reasoning/memory
- emotion as a judgement of value
- lab experiments, diaries
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problems with the cognitive approach:
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- too linear: rationalistic experience of emotions
- little sense of sociocultural context
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Social constructionist approach:
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- emotions are learnt rather than inherited
- interpretation of emotions depends on context
- relational and intersubjective
- no universal emotions
- strong and weak
- language constitutes emotion
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Strong social constructionist approach:
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emotions are social and cannot be seen as separate entities
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Weak social constructionist approach:
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some emotions are biologically given
9
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Outline hochschild’s view on emotional labour
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Ethnography on flight attendants. Hochschild found that smiles were part of their labour. This can be linked to Marx (alienation from emotion) and Goffman (public front)
