Psychology 203.3

Activated muscles under the eyes and raised cheeks suggest a natural smile.

A feigned smile is frozen in place for several seconds then suddenly switched off. a

Lifting the inner part of your eyebrows reveals distress or worry.

Eyebrows raised and pulled together signal fear.

Aiden has a bad cold and finds himself shuffling to class with his head down How might his posture affect his emotional well being?

His downcast posture may affect his mood, he may feel worse because how we look is how we fee.

Zajonc and LeDoux maintain that some emotional reactions occur before we have had the chance to label or interpret them.

Lazarus disagreed. Tehse psychologists differ about whether emotional responses occur in the absence of cognitive processing.

Women report experiencing emotions more deeply and they tend to be more adept at reading nonverbal behavior.

Men are capable of perceiving emotional cues, but they are less likely to expound on their perceptions.

Two problems with polygraph tests.

OUr physiological arousal is much the same from one emotion to another. anxiety, irritation, and guilt all prompt similar physiological reactivity. Many innocent people do respond with heightened tension to the accusation implied by the critical questions.

Authentic smiles tend to be briefer and to fade less abrupty.

Our brains are amazing detectors of subtle expressions.

The telltale signs of emotion generally cross cultures.

People blind from birth spontaneously exhibit the common facial expressions associated with such emotions as joy, sadness, fear, and anger.

A polygraph= lie detector.

Polygraphs dont literally detect lies. They measure emotion linked changes in breathing, cardiovascular activity and perspiration.

Experience can sensitize us to particular emotions as shown by experiments using a series of faces that morph from anger to fear or sadness.

Shown a face that is 60% fear and 40% anger, they are likely to perceive anger as fear. Their perceptions become sensitively attuned to glimmers of danger that nonabused children miss.

Assume that after spending an hour on a treadmill, you receive a letter saying that your scholarship request has been approved.

The two-facter Schater Singer theory of emotion would predict that your physical arousal will intensify your happiness.

When people are induced to assume fearful expressions, they often report feeling a little fear.

This result is known as the facial feedback

Expressive behavior implies emotion.

To decipher peoples emotions we read their bodies, listen to the voice tones, and study their faces.

Hostile gestures

prime hostile perceptions.

Experience influences how we perceive emotions:

Viewing the morphed face, evenly mixing fear with anger, physically abused children were more likely than nonabused children to perceive the face as angry.

Polygraph

a machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes accompanying emotion.

Our natural mimicry of others emotions

helps explain why emotions are contagious.

Acting as another acts

helps us feel what anothe feels.

The James-Lange theory of emotion

maintains that a physiological response happens BEFORE we know what we are feeling.

Facial feedback effect

the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as feqr, anger, or happiness.

Introverts tend to excel at reading others emotions,

while extraverts are generally easier to read.