Social approach

Question 1

Armon Jones theory

Answer 1

Social approach, says that the purpose of emotions is to reinforce society’s norms and values

• Emotion rules as example of how specific and recognizable these norms, values and expectations are

Question 2

Averill’s criticism

Answer 2

Social function of emotion is underestimated in theories

Universaility is overestimated

Emotions are not biologically driven

Question 3

Averill’s social construct theory

Answer 3

3 Prinicples

1Sees emotions as social constructions that give shape and meaning to our world.

2. Emotions are learned behaviours that can be acquired if people are exposed to them within a culture
3. Emotions have an important social role, and inform/influence others

Question 4

Empathy

Answer 4

Capacity to perceive, share and understand others’ affectionate states;
1. affective empathy; less under contorl, taking over anothers’ emotions
2. Cogntive empathy; much more controlled. appraisal of the others sigtuation and attempt to understand the cause

It has an
- adaptive role; bonding, acknowledging
- epistemological role; fast and accurate predictions of other people’s needs/actions
- Social role’ reciprocal altruism, communication and moral reasoning

Question 5

Imitation

Answer 5

Action replication - similarity between observed an reactive movement

Imitative phenomena;
- Imitative mirroring; duplicating behaviour
- true imitating; duplicate and understand intention of the agent and the goal

Question 6

Reddening

Answer 6

When women were asked to manipulate pictures of men’s faces to make them as attractive as possible;
- Toned skin more red
- When asked to make more dominant’ more red

Red faces also ass w aggression

Blusing is seen ans trustworthiness trangressor. Prisoner’s dilemma invested more in blushing opponent and trusted them more

Question 7

Crying

Answer 7

Two main functions
- Tension relief, promoting recovery of psychological homeostasis
- Communication

Elicits positive/negative reactions form environment, crying women are sympathized with more than non-crying

Question 8

Liking and imitating

Answer 8

Empathetic response is amplified by similarity, familiarity and social closeness. The more we like a person, the more we imitate their actons

The more we imitate a person, the more they’ll like us

High empathy participants produced greater mimicry than low.