Midterm Emotion Study Guide Part 2

Front 1

Japanese/Americans and anger (the study)

Back 1

Japanese and Americans children were given a toy, the japanese children took longer to go back to the toy after having it angrily taken away. Where American children went back to playing after having it angrily taken away.

Front 2

Differences in suppression with happiness and well being

Back 2

More suppression = less happiness but less drug use as well

Front 3

Catherine Lutz vs. Dr. Shaver on the Ifaluk and universal emotions

Back 3

Lutz: "Americans see emotion as between an occurence and themselves" she believed that ifaluk did not, and had different categories for emotion.

Shaver: said that these emotions closely resemble the 5 categories he had except joy and love were combined.

100% love 56% happiness 90% anger 90% fear 47% sadness were from reports of people experiencing emotion outside themselves

only 15% were internally psychological and 8% internally physiological

Front 4

The notion of display rules

Back 4

How and to whom it is appropriate to express certain emotions

we can intensify or de-intensify them depending on the context

Front 5

Evidence for cross cultural universality in emotional expression

Back 5

US, China, and Basque (spain) did emotional categorization, all the same except

basque said that shame was separate

china said love was more complex

Front 6

Metaphors for emotion

Back 6

Anger in different languages study (metaphors)

US and Venezuela were asked to give metaphors for anger

both said: hot headed

US said: could fry an egg on his head and fuming

Venezuela said: blew his top and steamed up

bottom line: very similar

Front 7

The controversy of whether love is universal

Back 7

Love is blended with happiness in some cultures

In America love contains happiness

Maternal love and Sexual passion both fall under the category of love

Front 8

Emblems (different kinds of nonverbal signs)

Back 8

Nonverbal hand signals we use to express particular words

Front 9

illustrators (different kinds of nonverbal signs)

Back 9

Nonverbal gestures we use accompanying speech

Front 10

regulators (different kinds of nonverbal signs)

Back 10

nonverbal cues used in communication to indicate cultural rules about the conversation

Front 11

self adapters (different kinds of nonverbal signs)

Back 11

Energy expressed through tics or physical expressions

Front 12

Displays of emotion (different kinds of nonverbal signs)

Back 12

signals in the face voice or body that last from 1-10 seconds that are involuntary and similar to other animals

Front 13

Encoding Hypothesis (Darwin's principle of emotional expression)

Back 13

Facial expressions connection with emotions are universal through time and culture

Front 14

Decoding Hypothesis (Darwin's principle of emotional expression)

Back 14

Other cultures will recognize facial expressions in different cultures

Front 15

Principle of serviceable habits (Darwin's principle of emotional expression)

Back 15

Expressions that have lead to reward are reinforced

Front 16

Principle of antithesis (Darwin's principle of emotional expression)

Back 16

All emotions have a physical opposite

(happiness mouth goes up, sadness mouth goes down)

Front 17

Principle of nervous discharge (Darwin's principle of emotional expression)

Back 17

Excess energy is redirected through random non verbal behavior