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Emotions |
mental states or feelings associated with our evaluation of our expressions |
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Primary Emotions |
a small number (perhaps even) of emotions believed by some theorists to be cross-culturally universal |
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Discrete Emotions Theory |
Emotions As Evolved Expression (aka emotions are innate) |
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Display Rule |
one of the cultural guidelines for how and when to express emotions
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Primary Emotions |
cross-culturally universal emotions |
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Examples of Primary Emotions |
-Happiness -Disgust -Sadness -Fear -Surprise -Contempt -Anger |
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Subliminal |
stimuli that is below the threshold for awareness |
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Mere exposure effect |
repeated exposure to a stimulus makes us more likely to feel favorably toward it |
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Facial feedback hypothesis |
you're likely to feel emotions that correspond to your facial expressions |
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Nonverbal leakage |
an unconscious spillover of emotions into nonverbal behavior EX. biting your nails |
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Longevity |
associated with living longer |
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Broaden and build theory |
Happiness breeds success in our work, family, and love lives, in turn breeding more happiness |
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marriage (committed) |
married people tend to be happier than unmarred people |
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friendships |
people with many good friends are happier than people with a few |
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college |
people who graduate from college tend to be happier than non-graduates |
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religion |
people who have spiritual beliefs tend to be happier than people who don't |
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political affliction |
republicans happier than democrats |
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exercise |
people who exercise tend to be happier and less depressed |
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graditiude |
people who are grateful for what they have tend to be happier |
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flow |
people in the midst of flow, a mental state in which we are completely immersed in what we are doing tend to be especially happy |
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durability bias |
we believe that both our good and bad moods will last longer than they do |
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winning the lottery |
people are very happy for two months then return to their baseline (how they were before) |
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paraplegia |
also return to their baseline after a few months |
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Motivation |
psychological drives that propel us |
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Drive Reduction Theory |
all about reducing the frustration |
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incentive theories |
we are often motivated by positive goals |
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intrinstic movitavtion |
motivated by internal goals |
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extrinstic movitation |
motivated by external goals |
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Lateral Hypothalamus |
plays a role in initialing eating |
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ventromedial hypothalamus |
seems to indicate when to stop eating |
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set point |
a value that establishes a range of body fat and muscle mass we tend to maintain |
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Internal-external theory |
people are motivated to eat more by external cues |
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bulimia |
individuals engage in recurrent binge eating |
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anorexia |
individuals become emaciated in their relentless pursuit of thinness |
