1. Emotion, Intuition and “Hot” Thinking I.Psychological Perspectives on Emotion  the role of thinking in emotion II.Studying Emotion III.Blink: Thin Slicing Emotions

6. angerfearhappycontempt

7. Emotion 101  Emotion Families  Three Channels of Output  Subjective Feeling  Expression  Physiology  Appraisals of Meaning (aka the role of thinking in emotions)  Hot “Cognitions”  “You intentionally demeaned me”

8. Can we study emotion scientifically? Emotions in the Context of Couple Interactions  Laboratory Based Interaction  “Revealed Offense” Task  Videotape ==> Observational Coding  Physiological Indicators of Emotion  VIDEO RECALL  On-line Feelings and thoughts

9. Affect Rating Slide

10. “How I felt during this discussion” Wife’s Negative “HAM” Wife’s Positive “HAM”

11. Hot Affect Moments (HAM) Questionnaire

12.  Does this study show that you can use science to examine emotion?  How do you know emotions when you see them?  What cues do you use?  BLINK: Thin Slicing Emotions

13. Ekman: FACS SYSTEM page 413 for score page 382 for score page 381 for score video 4 w4 page 465 page 465 w0 page 465 page 465 4ii page 466 page 466 4i page 466 page 466 0 page 465 page 465 Action Unit 4 – Brow Lowerer

14. Anger The eyebrows and corners of the mouth are pulled down. Happiness The eyebrows and corners of the mouth are raised.

15. Specific Affect Coding System (SPAFF)  GOTTMAN (from Blink)  Long Manual  Gestalt Approach  Body Language  Facial Expression  Speech Content  Speech Qualities (tone, prosody)  Extensive Training  Multiple emotions coded  SPAFF vs. FACS  More inference, harder to get interrater agreement, more “subjective”

16. Our Method of Observing Emotion  View Videotapes  30-second epochs  16 emotions and couple behaviors  e.g., Anger (0=not at all; 9=A lot)  5-6 independent “naïve” observers  ratings pooled

17.  Naïve Coder Approach vs. SPAFF  More reliance on intuition, subjective judgment … thin slicing  Less “thinking” and reliance on heuristics in manual  More or less objective???

18. Does it Work?  Highly correlated with SPAFF coding  Emotional Coding Predicts Marital Quality and Stability  83% accuracy in predicting dissolution  Why might be the advantages of naïve coding vs. SPAFF manualized approach?