Emotion
Primary emotions (feelings inside) = Universal emotions comprising happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprised
Happiness
Sadness
Fear
Anger
Surprise
Disgust
Differences: primary are the basic emotions that lead to the secondary emotions. Happiness -» proud
Secondary emotions more difficult to associate with facial expression,
Primary emotions are not considered easily shaped by culture
Facial expression
Very important
Don`t depend on sight
Source of facial expressions is from biological experience, from our DNA. that we all have
Definitions
Passion = emotional energy which encourages people to pursue what they want to achieve
Emotional contagion = If appropriate physical symptoms are mimicked, the correspondent emotion is generated
Emotion as obstacle to knowledge
Irrational behavior
Twist reasoning - (rationalization, risk assessment)
Distort perception- (negativity bias)
Love is blind
Loving vs hating
Happy vs sad
Negative bias = leads us to focus more on negative things than positive things
Positive primary emotions vs negative primary emotions
Situational factors ( external attribution)
Dispositional factors (internal attribution)
Secondary emotion = come from primary emotions, Complex emotions composed by mixing primary emotions
Disappointment
Contempt
Awe
Jealously
Admiration
Pity
Pride
Envy
Guilt
Anxiety
Attribution error
Placing too much emphasis on dispositional factors and ignoring situatinal ones when explaining someone´s behavior
A bias to attribute to others behavior to internal causes rather than external circumstances
People attribute faults of their own to the situational factors (external attributions
People attribute faults to other people to the dispositional factors (internal attributions)
Just world hypothesis = tendency to believe that good people are rewarded and bad people are punished. this can lead to the blaming-the-victim effect
Risk assesment = We typically judge risks by consulting our feelings rather than statistics
Evolutionary past
Control, we usually fear less the things we are in control
Unknown , we usually fear more the unfamiliar risks
Sunbathing vs terrorism
Immediacy, greater fear to immediate threats than more distant gradual ones
Salience, the extent to which a risk sticks in our mind and is easy to remember MEDIA
Emotions may distort our ability to think clearly
Ways of dealing with irrational behavior
Stoicism = a philosophy of life which advocates the control and subjugation of one´s emotions
Apathy = A state of mind advocated by stoic philosophers which literally means without passion
Emotion as a source of knowledge
Emotional illuminatio (emotions can illuminate our perception)
Rational emotions (emotions can supplement our reason)
Source of values (Emotions can ground our values)
raising awareness with imagery
Appropriate (sensitive to the real nature if the situation)
Proportionate ( Have emotions to the right degree)
Emotion as a source of values (knowing facts through thinking = know values through feeling)
Gratitude
Anger
Pity
Guilt
When do we draw the line?
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Emotional intelligence