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18 Cards in this Set
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How does Anger work? (goals)
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Behind every emotion is a goal (or something valued/desired)
Not being able to achieve a goal or having something remove something desired results in frustration AKA anger |
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Fairness and anger
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Feeling like you should get what you want is an instinctual feeling.
People have to be trained to relieve feelings of frustration when not getting what they want |
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Zeroing-in on Someone as a result of anger...
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We see someone as a complex individual capable of many things, but as soon as they do something bad we zero in on that thing and it envelops our thoughts about them.
Not mad at John = John is complex Mad at John = John is just bad |
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Physical responses to anger and what they mean
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Attacking and yelling are how people "make things feel fair"
a furrowed brow, showing teeth, blood rushing to face all these signify no fear in getting hurt, feeling like they will harm you not be harmed. |
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Fear physiological responses
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Pale, downward slant of eyebrows, no furrowing of brow, eyes wide open
Paleness is a result of blood vessels retreating from skin, meaning they fear being hurt. |
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Fear and forward looking
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Fear has to do with cognition focusing on the future.
People are generally afraid of the results of something or a future occurance, fear is often not a reaction as much as it is a preconception. |
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Coping with fear
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Re-Appraisal is used to cope with fear
lying to yourself or re-assuring yourself that the situation will not be so bad and things are okay. |
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Cognition and fear
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Fear can be deprogrammed through getting people to change their thinking patterns in response to the fear triggering stimulus
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What causes Disgust?
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A biological response to perceived toxic stimulus
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Physiological response to disgust
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Throwing up if it is too powerful of a response
Furrowed brow to cut off circulation into nose, snear or pouty lips, heightened eyebrows. |
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Change in disgust over time
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People go from finding things that are simply toxic as disgusting to things like people or ideas as disgusting.
This is the only emotion that changes like this, it can morph |
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Why Happiness/Joy?
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Experiencing something favorable to you.
- goal/wish is granted. - something happening is good. |
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Genuine smiles vs. fake smiles
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Real smiles have eye crinkles where as fakes do not.
Actors can learn the eye crinkle but it takes different neural circuitry so it's not the same. |
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Regulation of happiness
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People regulate happiness in order to achieve more of it or contain it/express it more in certain social situations.
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What causes sadness?
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Loss and defeat
Loss: being detached from something you may not have been or were fully aware of being attached to defeat: being dominated in something you had your ego invested in |
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Physical signs of sadness
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everything is down
Posture, frowning, eyes down, eyebrows down |
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Crying and the function of it
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No agreement, but it may be to release neurotoxins or to call on support from the social group
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Difference between grieving/sadness and depression
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Grieving is temporary and lasts for up to two years to life, but eventually you become functional again
depression is a malfunction where the grieving/sadness becomes severe and will not stop. |
