AP Psych Mod 42
emotional intelligence
ability to understand and manage your own emotional experiences- perceive and respond to others
introverts
able to detect emotions in others better
emotion
affects tone of voice, facial expression ex: eyebrows together- fear, cheeks up-smile
fear, surprise, anger, disgust, happiness, sadness, contempt
basic facial emotions
women
better at reading emotion and are more emotional, more empathic
adaptation-level principle
describes our tendency to judge various stimuli relative to what we have previously experienced- explains how people adapt to their level of happiness
false
expression- deliberately made simulation of an emotion not being felt
masked
expression- false expression made to cover a macro expression
micro
expressions- brief facial expressions lasting only a fraction of a second, when deliberately or unconsciously conceals a feeling
men
get angrier easier
culture
meanings of gestures vary throughout ____; musical and facial expressions always the same
behavior feedback
motions awaken emotions- thumbs up positive, middle finger hostile, act as others to feel what others feel
macro
normal expression usually last .5-4 seconds, often repeat, and fit with what is said and the sound of voice
extroverts
others can more easily read their emotions
labeling process
process of assigning a name to what we feel
paul ekman
said each basic emotion is associated with a unique facial expression- innate facial expressions capable of 10,000 expressions
display rules
social and cultural rules that regulate emotional expression, especially facial expression
Darwin
speculated nonverbal facial expressions led to our ancestors survival (hard wired)
health psychology
subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine
facial feedback effect
tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings, such as fear, anger, or happiness (feace feeds feethings) ex: smile- more easily amused
cognitive labeling
thinking about how we feel
facial expression
universal, automatic response, help with reading emotions, amplify emotions (charles darwin) hard to feel one emotion when making the ____ of another