exam 1 articles Flashcards
how is happiness or lack thereof percieved in western cultures?
a personal failure
what are the reasons why people in different cultures are averse to happiness?
-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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why would being happy make it more likely for bad things to happen to you?
-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)
why would being happy make you a worse person
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
why would expressing happiness be bad for yourself and others?
-it is seen as being unhumble and inviting the envy of others
why would pursing happiness be bad for yourself and others?
-there is a belief that pursing happiness is selfish and can lead to neglect, specially in collectivist cultures
what is the key takeaway in the aversion to happiness article
using happiness as a benchmark for worldwide wellbeing is problematic because happiness is not always seen as a universal good
what are the two distinct ways that humans vocalize emotion?
prosody, and vocal bursts
what is prosody?
or the non-lexical patterns of tune,
rhythm, and timbre.
how many emotions have been identified in prosody?
– anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and tenderness
what are vocal bursts
s, brief
nonlinguistic sounds that occur in between speech or in the absence of speech.
vocal burts structure
social interaction
vocal bursts can trigger specific
neural activity
what is semantic space?
This multidimensional
construct represents all emotional responses within a certain modal quality
what are the 3 features of semantic space?
- dimensionality
- conceptualization
- how emotions connect.
what is dimensionality?
refers to the number of distinct emotions that people represent
what is conceptualization
conceptualization which examines how emotion categories influence the
meaning assigned to emotions
summary of the method of the vocal article
2000 ish vocal bursts recorded of individuals expression vocal bursts of emotions from prompted scenarios
Durkheim’s theory on collective effervescence
suggests that collective gatherings and synchronization are ways that people create emotional communion and feelings of belonging.
if Durkheim’s theory is supported
he sharing of intense emotions should lead to more social resilience
summary of the method of the social sharing terrorism article
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.
results of the collective sharing article
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.
what was the weakest evience found in the collective sharing article
anger was not a good lexical indicator and people were not more likely to use angry terms following the tragedies
conclusions of the collective article
This research was able to expand upon Durkheim’s existing principle of collective effervescence theory using social media
