FPSY3900: Emotion and the Contemporary Jury (Definitions)

Lecture 9

Emotional Valence

same valence → distinct influence

• differs amongst jurors

Affective Forecasting

Anticipated emotional responses guide behaviours

• Encourage or avoid tendencies based on outcome 

• used to guide our behaviours to align with our positive emotions

• predicted emotions used to guide our behaviours

• “how am i going to feel about the verdict guilty/not guility"?”

  • chasing good emotions

• tailor our behaviours to the predicted emotions

Affect as Feedback

Affective feedback will inform future decision-making

• when we are processing information it is stimuli that needs to be processed somehow

• switch into either system 1 or 2

Affect as Feedback - System I

affective and heuristic

• immediate affective heuristic processing to direct any

• stereotypical decision making (surface level)

• feedback of the affect (emotion)

• subjective (easy and quick)

• when we experience a positive emotion, our brain will continue to follow that route rather than thinking more analytically

• our thoughts may eventually turn into a negative affect

  • making us feel bad

  • experiencing negative emotions

Affect as Feedback - System II

deliberate and analytical

• won’t let our biases and prejudices affect our decision processes

• thinking more objectively

Affect as Cognitive Appraisal

• Unique appraisals → distinct decision-making processes

• Differs depending on the specific emotion 

• specific emotion can lead to distinct judgement and decision-making processes

• how these emotions dictate how we make decisions

• looking at different type of emotions

  • separate and unique impacts

Immediate Emotion

• Affect → direct source of information

• System I processing provides automatic emotional determinants on risk assessment and moral social judgement

• immediate instinctual response

Disgust-driven Moral Judgements 

• Emotional responses to perceived moral violations manifest as moral judgements

• Emotions contribute to attributions of blame

• when a moral judgement has been violated

• anger/disgust → moral emotions

• increase punishments assigning

Emotion Regulation  

• Management of emotions

  • our ability to manage them

• Increase/decrease/maintain emotional experiences

  • impacts the decisions we make

• Adjustment of emotion intensity

• Modify expression of emotions

• any experience with those emotions