exam 1 articles

Question 1

how is happiness or lack thereof percieved in western cultures?

Answer 1

a personal failure

Question 2

what are the reasons why people in different cultures are averse to happiness?

Answer 2

-being happy makes it more likely for bas things to happen to you
-being happy makes you a worse person
-expressions of happiness are bad for yourself and those around you
-pursuing happiness is bad for yourself and others
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Question 3

why would being happy make it more likely for bad things to happen to you?

Answer 3

-some cultures fell sadness will always follow happiness
- some religions feel that emotions will always revert to their opposites (taoism)
- some religions feel as though happiness is synonomous with sin (christianity)

Question 4

why would being happy make you a worse person

Answer 4

within islam, being happy means you are ignorant to the sadness of the world
-some cultures think happiness leads to vapidness and lack of creativity

Question 5

why would expressing happiness be bad for yourself and others?

Answer 5

-it is seen as being unhumble and inviting the envy of others

Question 6

why would pursing happiness be bad for yourself and others?

Answer 6

-there is a belief that pursing happiness is selfish and can lead to neglect, specially in collectivist cultures

Question 7

what is the key takeaway in the aversion to happiness article

Answer 7

using happiness as a benchmark for worldwide wellbeing is problematic because happiness is not always seen as a universal good

Question 8

what are the two distinct ways that humans vocalize emotion?

Answer 8

prosody, and vocal bursts

Question 9

what is prosody?

Answer 9

or the non-lexical patterns of tune,
rhythm, and timbre.

Question 10

how many emotions have been identified in prosody?

Answer 10

– anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and tenderness

Question 11

what are vocal bursts

Answer 11

s, brief
nonlinguistic sounds that occur in between speech or in the absence of speech.

Question 12

vocal burts structure

Answer 12

social interaction

Question 13

vocal bursts can trigger specific

Answer 13

neural activity

Question 14

what is semantic space?

Answer 14

This multidimensional
construct represents all emotional responses within a certain modal quality

Question 15

what are the 3 features of semantic space?

Answer 15

1. dimensionality
2. conceptualization
3. how emotions connect.

Question 16

what is dimensionality?

Answer 16

refers to the number of distinct emotions that people represent

Question 17

what is conceptualization

Answer 17

conceptualization which examines how emotion categories influence the
meaning assigned to emotions

Question 18

summary of the method of the vocal article

Answer 18

2000 ish vocal bursts recorded of individuals expression vocal bursts of emotions from prompted scenarios

Question 19

Durkheim’s theory on collective effervescence

Answer 19

suggests that collective gatherings and synchronization are ways that people create emotional communion and feelings of belonging.

Question 20

if Durkheim’s theory is supported

Answer 20

he sharing of intense emotions should lead to more social resilience

Question 21

summary of the method of the social sharing terrorism article

Answer 21

Tweets from users in France were collected after the terrorist attacks that occurred in November of 2015.weets were annotated into tweets with positive and negative affect terms (including sad, anxious, and angry terms), as well as terms associated with community (including social-process, prosocial-behavior, and shared-values terms). Terms like “somebody” or “friend” are considered social-process terms; terms like “caring” and “solidarity” are examples of prosocial-behavior terms

These annotations are known in the article as lexical indicators.

Question 22

results of the collective sharing article

Answer 22

People who shared their emotions immediately following the event were more likely to use more social-process and prosocial-behavior terms in the long-term than people who did not share their emotions immediately following the event.

Question 23

what was the weakest evience found in the collective sharing article

Answer 23

anger was not a good lexical indicator and people were not more likely to use angry terms following the tragedies

Question 24

conclusions of the collective article

Answer 24

This research was able to expand upon Durkheim’s existing principle of collective effervescence theory using social media