W4 - Theories of Emotions and Guest Lecture 2/2

Question 1

Lists descriptive characteristics for WEIRD and non-WEIRD emotions

Answer 1

WEIRD: MINE

Mental
Internal
Essentialist

= more individualistic

WEIRD: OURS

Outside
Relational
Situational

= more collectivistic

Question 2

Why evolutionary theorist talked about the evolutionary continuity of emotionality?

Answer 2

Darwin

Question 3

Who proposed that facial expressions universally indicate basic emotions?

Answer 3

Ekman

Question 4

Which disease caused by natural lesioning of a certain region of the brain cannot identify facial expressions of fear? Lesion occurs in which region?

Answer 4

Urbach-Wiethe disease: lesion of the amygdala.

Question 5

What are objective-reality models of emotion suggesting?

Answer 5

Internal causal states of emotions have receptive field (stimulus-response like) -> not clear whether subjective feelings are part of the equation

Question 6

Which task can highlight our susceptibility for the fundamental attribution error in regard to emotions? What psychological effect does that relate to?

Answer 6

Emotional face recognition is poor in free-labelling versions of the task

The Kuleshov effect

Question 7

Can patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease ever experience fear?

Answer 7

Yes, if prior experiences (memories) were strongly associated with fear.

E.g.,SM fears the doctor and the den4st due to prior painful experiences

She experiences panic/fear and memories of being aWacked when she inhales CO2

Question 8

Have most meta-analyses been successful in finding evidence of innate emotion circuits?

Answer 8

No, only functions (e.g., core affect, language, etc.)

Question 9

True or false: the fundamental attribution error is primarily a WEIRD phenomenon.

Answer 9

True.

Question 10

To which cultural emotion theory (WEIRD or non-WEIRD) is this statement more corresponding to: emotions are more embedded in a social/cultural reality than in an objective reality.

Answer 10

OURS (non-WEIRD)

Question 11

In non-human research from a MINE perspective, is it usually core-affect or emotions that are being investigated?

Answer 11

Core-affect

Question 12

How can non-human research from an OURS perspective be conducted?

Answer 12

In reward-punishment paradigms, which imitate a very simplified protoculture context (rules and expectations)

Question 13

What is behavioural ecology?

Answer 13

Understanding animal behaviour in relation to the ecological niche it occupies.

Question 14

What is one way to reconcile OURS and MINE perspectives on emotions?

Answer 14

Studying emotion concepts instead of circuits -> network neuroscience and spreading activation theory.