Lecture 13 - Why do we have emotions? Flashcards
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Why do we have emotions?:
There is a survival value to emotion. Fear is the subjective experience that goes with the arousal felt in a dangerous situation.
One problem - WHilst that might be true for fear, that is not true for other emotions.
Second problem - Emotions really are not just our own experiences, our behaviour can express emotions so they are not private. Some emotions can give rise to facial expressions and bodily emotions.
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Describe the Twelve emotions tested by Hertenstein et al. (2006).
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Describe Piff et al., 2015, definition of awe.
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Describe Eisenberg et al. (1989).
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Describe Steinel et al. (2008)
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Describe Baumann & DeSteno (2010).
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Describe Lerner et al. (2003)
Emotion can effect other forms of judgements as well…
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LECTURE SYNOPSIS:
It could be argued that emotions have survival value for us. Fear, for example, is part of a response system that helps us to get away from danger. But for many emotions, such as pride and embarrassment, that is not the case. Also, what is the point of having facial expressions for emotions? Why not just have them as private experiences? The answer to that is that emotions are ways of communicating with others and of influencing social interactions. In fact emotions have many important consequences for social interaction. Here are some examples.
People who find a coin of low value, and who are presumably more happy as a result, are more likely to help others than people who don’t (Isen & Levin, 1972). People who are in a state of awe are also more likely to help others than people who are not (Piff et al., 2015). People reacting to a video with sympathy offer more help than people reacting with personal distress (Eisenberg et al., 1989). Outcomes of negotiations depend on whether anger is directed against a person or against the offer they have made (Steinel et al., 2008). Angry people have increased likelihood of misidentifying a neutral object carried by a man as a gun (Baumann & DeSteno, 2010). Risks are judged more likely to occur by people who feel fear than by those who feel anger (Lerner et al., 2003).
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