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Emotional competence (Role of emotion (Neuroscience (Anatomical/molecular…

- - - - Neocortex and primitive brain don't differ as originally thought
      - Amygdala
        
        Role in processing emotional information
        
        Social cues
        
        Facial expression
        
        If amygdala is activated when information first presented,
        predicts accuracy of recall
      - Prefrontal cortex
        
        Role in emotional regulation
        
        Somatic marker hypothesis
        
        Bodily states may bias decision making
        
        Allow decisions to be made with insufficient evidence
  - - - If anxious, more likely to interpret ambiguous stimuli as threatening
- - - - Attention
      - Memory
      - Decision making
- - - - Emotion a less valuable, raw, malleable material
- - - - Stress v anxiety
        
        The two have different effects on thought and behaviour
      - Emotions as "sensations" - physiological or neurological responses to situations. May occur without experiencing "feelings"
    - - Conscious subjective experience of feelings or moods
      - Not just triggered reflexively but also emerging from interpretation
    - - The effect of social and cultural forces
      - Still seen as physiological and internal to the individual
      - Approach ranges from cognitive behavioural to social perfomative
        
        Aristotle - emotions as skills that can be developed and controlled
        
        Radical social theories
        
        Circulating force
        
        Medium of exchange
        
        Form of labour
        
        Critical social theory
        
        Role in shaping power relationships
        
        Who decides what is appropriate in a context?
        
        How are inappropriate emotions policed?
      - Importance of language used to describe the emotion
- - - - The problem of acting
    - - Identity formation
      - Self-reflection
- - - - "An activity that requires one to induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others"