Topic 10 Emotion F25.pdf

Four Components of Emotion

Emotions are the ability to express our feelings. How tense those feelings are - how much they vary, the variations between people.

• Experience: Self-reported feelings

• Behavior: facial expressions

• Physiology:

  

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• Function: What are emotions for?

Emotion Experience

Emotional experience is how we (subjectively) feel Often measured using self-report scales (Likert scales)

• Discrete emotion approach assumes that each emotion is a discrete state … categorically distinct from other emotions.
• Dimensional approach assumes that emotional experience can be distinguished by…
  • Valence (pleasant - unpleasant) and by
  • Intensity of arousal/ activation (more to less)

Note that emotions are studied together here. It’s not that one emotion is better than another, but it depends on what researchers like more.

Behavioral expressions of emotions

Why do we think basic emotions are universal?

Facial Action Coding System(FACS) - a specific encoding scheme that will get unique coding. （Paul Ekman）