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Elements of Emotion!

Elements of Emotion!. Emotion. Involves a subjective conscious experience accompanied by bodily arousal and by characteristic overt expressions Cognitive component Physiological component Behavioral component. The Cognitive.

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Elements of Emotion!

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  1. Elements of Emotion!

  2. Emotion • Involves a subjective conscious experience accompanied by bodily arousal and by characteristic overt expressions • Cognitive component • Physiological component • Behavioral component

  3. The Cognitive • 550 words in the English language refer to emotions ( althoughthis number may vary do to the creativity of the human race! I’m feeling “googleish” today.) • Because of its personal nature, psychologist often rely on verbal reports of what people are feeling. (uhhh….remember introspection? • Emotions involve automatic reactions that can be difficult to control

  4. Physiological (body) Component • Dominated by the automatic processes in your body • Amygdala lies at the core of a complex set of neural circuits that process emotion • The connection between emotion and autonomic arousal provides the basis for the polygraph test

  5. Autonomic Nervous System • Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic • Hypothalamus • Limbic System • Cerebral Cortex

  6. Lie Detector or Emotion Dector?

  7. Emotion-Lie Detectors • Polygraph • machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies • measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion • perspiration • heart rate • blood pressure • breathing changes

  8. Behavioral Component • Body Language • Facial Expressions • Facial feedback hypothesis • Muscles send signals to the brain that aid in the recognition of emotions *How does the world of texting and online chat deal with emotion?

  9. Can you identify the expression?

  10. Theories of Emotion • Does your heart pound because you are afraid... or are you afraid because you feel your heart pounding?

  11. Pounding heart (arousal) Sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus) Fear (emotion) Cannon-BardTheory of Emotion • Emotion-arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger: • physiological responses • subjective experience of emotion

  12. Sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus) Pounding heart (arousal) Fear (emotion) James-Lange Theory of Emotion • Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli

  13. James-Lange (cont.) • Subjects report feeling more sad when viewing scenes of war, sickness, and starvation if their “sad face” muscles are activation. • They also find comic strips funnier if their “happy face” muscles are activated.

  14. Pounding heart (arousal) Sight of oncoming car (perception of stimulus) Fear (emotion) Cognitive label “I’m afraid” Schachter’s Two Factor Theory of Emotion • To experience emotion one must: • be physically aroused • cognitively label the arousal

  15. Schachter’s Two-Factor (cont.) Epinephrine Study:

  16. Schachter’s Two-Factor (cont.) • Swinging Bridge Study Would you like my phone number?

  17. Reviewing the three Emotion occurs at the same time as arousal Arousal + Cognitive label  Emotion Emotion follows (lags behind) arousal

  18. Emotional Intelligence • Daniel Goleman, psychologist and award-winning author of Emotional Intelligence and other books on EI, challenges traditional measures of intelligence as a predictor of life success. • Why you should listen to him: .Daniel Goleman brought the notion of "EI" to prominence as an alternative to more traditional measures of IQ with his 1995 mega-best-seller Emotional Intelligence. • Since the publication of that book, conferences and academic institutes have sprung up dedicated to the idea. EI is taught in public schools, and corporate leaders have adopted it as a new way of thinking about success and leadership. EI, and one's "EIQ," can be an explanation of why some "average" people are incredibly successful, while "geniuses" sometimes fail to live up to their promise.

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