week 8 Flashcards
What is an emotion
- Transient, biophysiological reaction to events that have consequences for one’s welfare
- Require an immediate behavioral response
- Includes feelings, physiological reactions, expressive behaviors, and cognitive changes
- Act as a rapid information system
- Helps people act with minimal conscious thinking
- Are a human universal
Categories of Emotion
Basic emotions –>
Universal in all humans, triggered
by a biologically-innate system in
people’s brains
Self-conscious emotions –>
Associated with self-reflective processes
* Shame
* Guilt
* Pride
* Embarrassment
6 basic emotions Ekman
Anger
Fear
Disgust
Surprise
Happiness
Sadness
relativism
differences across cultures
universalism
similarity across cultures;
Front end calibration
cultuur regelt waar mensen in de eerste plaats emotioneel van worden. Dit betekent dat een en dezelfde gebeurtenis verschillende emoties kan oproepen afhankelijk van de cultuur. De gedachte aan het eten van paardenvlees kan bijvoorbeeld een positieve reactie oproepen bij de ene cultuur en een negatieve reactie bij de andere
Back end calibration
Cultuur regelt emotionele uitingen en gedragingen nadat emoties zijn uitgelokt. Er zijn culturele normen die culturele displayregels worden genoemd en die regelen hoe individuen uit verschillende culturen hun emoties uiten of niet uiten in verschillende situaties.
Ingroup advantage
individuals can recognize emotions expressed by members of their own
culture relatively better that of those from a different culture
Socially engaging emotions
occur as a result of themes derived from social interdependence and relationship with others
Caused by social interdependence such as friendliness, respect, sympathy, guilt, and shame
Socially disengaging emotions
=occur as a result of themes grounded in independence and autonomy of the self and it separateness from others
Occur out of thoughts based on
independence and autonomy such as pride, self-esteem, sulkiness, or
frustration
deamplification
Expressing less than actually felt
amplification
Expressing more than actually felt
neutralization
Showing nothing
qualification
Showing emotion but with another emotion to comment on it
adding perspective
masking
Masking or concealing feelings