Emotion, Stress, and Health Chapter 12
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Emotions are a mix of physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and consciously experienced thoughts.
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Controversies: Does physiological arousal precede or follow emotional experience? Does cognition always precede emotion?
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Controversies: Does physiological arousal precede or follow emotional experience? Does cognition always precede emotion?
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Controversies: Does physiological arousal precede or follow emotional experience? Does cognition always precede emotion? Troy Hurtubise
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Controversies: Does physiological arousal precede or follow emotional experience? Does cognition always precede emotion?
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion James-Lange theory: The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion My theory... is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike. The hypothesis here to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect... and that the more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble... - William James
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Cannon-Bard theory: the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotions
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Two-factor theory: the theory that to experience emotions one must by physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Cognition and Emotion
Emotion, Stress, and Health Theories of Emotion Cognition and Emotion
Schacter and Singer’s experiment: Independent Variable 1: Told to expect effects of drug or not Independent Variable 2: Confederate acting either euphoric or irritated Cognition Can Define Emotion
Schacter and Singer’s experiment: Dependent Variable: Subjects emotion (either euphoric or irritated) Cognition Can Define Emotion
Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, BC Dutton and Aron’s experiment: Independent Variable 1: Capilano bridge or control (non-scary) bridge Independent Variable 2: Interviewer male or female Cognition Can Define Emotion
Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, BC Dutton and Aron’s experiment: Dependent variable: whether the men accepted the woman's phone number, and whether they called her back later; and sexual content of survey responses Cognition Can Define Emotion
Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, BC Prediction: fear subjects felt by being on high bridge would be misinterpreted as sexual arousal when in presence of female interviewer. Cognition Can Define Emotion
Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, BC Results: “Sexual content of stories written by subjects on the fear- arousing bridge and tendency of these subjects to attempt [contact] with the interviewer were both significantly greater.” Cognition Can Define Emotion
Cognition Does Not Always Precede Emotion
Emotion, Stress, and Health Cognition and Emotion Go ahead and lie to me…
Lie Detection
Lie Detection “No spy has ever been caught [by] using the polygraph”
Lie Detection
Lie Detection
Chapter 12 Review How do psychologists define emotion? What are basic theories of emotion? How do these theories differ? How do cognition and emotion relate?