Week 5 - Emotions

Emotion

Complex reaction pattern to a personally significant event

Mood

Short lived, No apparent cause (Feeling off today)

Feelings

Result of emotion, influenced by memories nad beliefs

Three components of Emotion

1. Subjective Experience (Cognitive / How you feel)

2. Physiological Response (Bodily Reaction / Heart rate)

3. Behavioral / Expressive Response (Outward behavior / Facial expression)

Types of Emotions

• Basic

• Complex

Characteristics of Basic Emotions

• Tend to happen automatically

• Associated with recognizable facial expression

• Role - Survival

  • 4 to 8 Emotions

Characteristics of Complex

• Blend of emotions

• Less clear facial expression

James - Lange Theory

• Emotions due to physiological arousal

• Physiological response happens before emotional state

Cannon - Bard Theory

• Physiological and emotional response happen at the same time

• Concurrent but independent

Founder of Two Factor Theory

Schachter and Singer

Two Factor Theory

Emotions has 2 key components

1. Physical Arousal

2. Cognitive Label

Both physiological and emotional response happen at the same time

We seek environmental cues to explain our arousal

Founder of Cognitive - Mediational Theory

Lazarus

Cognitive - Mediational Theory

Emotions depend on our cognitive appraisal (evaluations of events)

Emotions and Physiological response happen at the same time

Constructed Emotion Theory (Barrett)

Emotions are just social construct to interpret sensory input and social situation (Not reaction)

Automatic Emotion Regulation (Mauss et al.)

Emotional regulation happen unconsciously