w8 - Social Emotions

Question 1

Parkinson & Manstead (2015)

4 key ways that social factors are tied to emotion.

Answer 1

1. Specific emotions can emerge in response to other people
2. Other poeple can influence appraisal process
3. Expressing emotion can influence other people
4. Emotion regulation can occur with other people in mind

Question 2

What are social emotions dependent on ?

Answer 2

Dependent on other people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions

shame, jealousy, embarresment

Question 3

What is the social-functional approach to emotion?

Answer 3

Emotions solve problems important to social relationships

functional

Question 4

Gratitude is described as a…

Answer 4

Self-transcendent emotion.

Facilitates cooperation

Question 5

What is schadenfreude ?

Answer 5

Shameful joy, taking pleasure in the suffering of others

Question 6

What are three links to the feeling of schadenfreude ?

Answer 6

1. Feeling inferior
2. Disliking another person or group
3. Deserving of misfortune

Question 7

What might perceiving others direct schadenfreude to an individual cause?

Answer 7

A lowering of that persons status

Question 8

Other peoples - what - influences our emotional appraisals ?

Answer 8

We take into acount other poeples appraisals and emotions

Question 9

Expressing emotions can influence other people

How does the Emotions as Social Influence (EASI) model predict two way emotions might influence others?

Answer 9

1. Inferential processes: emotions have informational which an influence how you act
2. Affective reactions : not inferring, just reacting to anothers emotion

emotions influencing behaviour

Question 10

Emotion regulation can occur with other people in mind

2 kinds of interpersonal emotion regulation.

Answer 10

1. Intrinsic : interacting with other to change your own emotion
2. Extrinsic : interacting with others in order to change how they feel

Question 11

What is an example of extrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation?

Answer 11

Priming your partner with angery music so they perform better in a shooting videogame

Question 12

Situations in which postive emotions may not be helpful is captured by which princple?

Answer 12

The emotional mismatch principle
- Who
- What
- how

Greenaway & Kalokerinos (2017)

Question 13

People finding ‘expressive’ winners more likeable is an example of what?

Answer 13

The mismatch between emotion and setting.

Example of the ‘who’ factor’

emotion mismatch theory

Question 14

What might be one factor that may effect your emotional expression?

Answer 14

Culture
expressivness
Individual societies > collectivst

Question 15

What does the ‘how’ factor of emotional expression refer to ?

Answer 15

Emotions should be expressed in the right way

Question 16

Known as a duchenne smile

Where in the face do we read an authentic smile ?

Answer 16

In the eyes.

Question 17

How can the inclusion of a smiley face on email be perceived?

Informal setting

Answer 17

No effect on warmth, and assoicated with a decreased competence compared to text only

increased warmth in informal settings