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a) Ekman posits that all people share an overlap in facial language
b) Seven facial expressions are recognized and produced cross-culturally
in response to the emotions of happiness, surprise, anger, disgust, fear,
sadness, and contempt
c) Ekman used a neuro-cultural position to reflect the joint contributions
of the brain and culture in emotional expression
3. How does Culture Constrain Emotional Expression?
a) Different cultures have varying standards for management of emotion
b) Cultures establish social rules or norms regarding when and where
certain emotions should be displayed
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CHAPTER 13: EMOTION, STRESS, AND HEALTH
B. Theories of Emotion
1. Theories of emotion attempt to explain the relationship between physiological
and psychological aspects of the experience of emotion
2. The physiology of emotion refers to those responses that are designed to
mobilize the body for action to deal with the source of the emotion
a) The autonomic nervous system (ANS) prepares the body for emotional
responses through action of the sympathetic and parasympathetic
nervous systems
(i) The sympathetic nervous system is more active when stimuli
are mild and unpleasant
(ii) The parasympathetic nervous system is more active when
stimuli are mild and pleasant
b) Strong emotions such as fear or anger activate the body’s emergency
reaction system, which prepares the body for potential danger
c) Integration of hormonal and neural aspects of arousal is controlled by
the hypothalamus and the limbic system
(i) The amygdala (part of the limbic system) serves as a gateway
for emotion and a filter for memory
(ii) The hypothalamus, located in the cortex, is involved as
switching station, with its connections to other parts of the
body
3. James-Lange Theory of Body Reaction
a) Holds that emotion stems from bodily feedback, in which the
perception of stimulus causes autonomic arousal and other bodily
actions that lead to the experience of an emotion
b) Considered a peripheralist theory, it assigns the most prominent role
in the chain of emotional response to visceral reactions of the ANS
4. Cannon-Bard Theory of Central Neural Processes
a) Takes a centralist focus on the actions of the central nervous system
(CNS)
b) Four objections to James-Lange Theory:
(i) Visceral activity is irrelevant for emotional experience
(ii) Visceral responses are similar across different arousal
situations, e.g., love making and fear
(iii) Many emotions are not distinguishable from others simply by
their physiological components
(iv) ANS responses are too slow to be the source of emotions
elicited in a split-second
c) Cannon-Bard proposed that emotion requires the brain to intercede
between input of stimulus and output of response
d) Proposed that emotion-arousing stimuli have simultaneous effects,
causing both bodily arousal and the subjective experience of emotion
(via the cortex)
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PSYCHOLOGY AND LIFE
5. Cognitive Appraisal Theories of Emotion
a) Schachter proposed emotion to be the joint effect of physiological
arousal and cognitive appraisal, with both necessary for emotion to
occur
b) Lazarus maintains that “emotional experience cannot be understood
solely in terms of what happens in the person or in the brain, but
grows out of ongoing transactions with the environment that are
evaluated.”
c) Challenges to Lazarus-Schachter
(i) Awareness of physiological arousal is not a necessary
condition
(ii) Experiencing strong arousal without obvious cause does not
lead to a neutral, undifferentiated state
(iii) Zajonc demonstrates possibility of having preferences
without inferences, and to feel without knowing why—the
mere exposure effect
d) Safest conclusion is that cognitive appraisal is an important, but not
the only, aspect of emotional experience
C. Functions of Emotion
1. Motivation and Arousal
a) Emotions serve a motivational function by arousing the individual to
take action with regard to an experienced or imagined event
b) Emotions direct and sustain behaviors toward specific goals
c) Emotions provide feedback by amplifying or intensifying selected life
experiences, by signaling that a response is significant or has self-
relevance
d) Emotions give an awareness of inner conflicts
e) Yerkes-Dodson law: Performance of difficult tasks decreases, as
arousal increases, whereas performance of easy tasks increases as
arousal increases
(i) Relationship between arousal and performance has a U-
shaped function, predicting that too little or too much arousal
impairs performance
(ii) Explores possibility that optimal arousal level produces peak
performance
(iii) Key to level of arousal is task difficulty
2. Social Functions of Emotion
a) Emotions serve the function of regulating social interactions
(i) Stimulation of prosocial behaviors
(ii) Aid in social communication
3. Emotional Effects on Cognitive Functioning
a) Mood-congruent processing: Material congruent with one’
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