Emotion: social and neuroscience perspectives

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  • Emotion: Cognitive & Neuroscience Perspective
    • Social
      • Functions
        • emotions have social functions
        • 4 levels: individual, dyadic, group, culture
        • functional doesn't always mean pleasant
          • e.g. guilt and embarassment
      • Self-conscious and social emotions
        • e.g. guilt and embarassment
        • shame, guilt, embarassment, pride
        • jealousy -  compariso to a rival who threatens self-esteem  and significant relationship
          • core or elaborated
        • shame reaction depends on reparability (and culture)
          • Culture
            • Collectivist vs. individualistic
            • certain cultures value certain emotions e.g. honor culture
            • little evidence for the BET universality hypothesis
      • Facial expression
        • BET
          • FE = core affect
          • little evidence for the BET universality hypothesis
        • TCE
          • FE = subjective emotion
        • BECV
          • FE = tool for social influence
      • Culture
        • Collectivist vs. individualistic
        • certain cultures value certain emotions e.g. honor culture
    • Neuroscience
      • Fear
        • amygdala specific to fear (BET)
        • amygdala related to arousal (TCE)
      • Motivation and action
        • Valence hypothesis
          • LH = positive, RH = negative
        • Motivational direction hypothesis
          • LH = approach, RH = withdrawal
          • anger = sword and shield hypothesis
        • embodied motivation
      • Self-conscious emotions
        • OFC motivates adherence to social nrorms
          • shame, guilt, embarassment, pride
          • evidence from brain damage and bvFTD patients
        • lack of morality as a consequence of brain damage?
      • Relationships
        • pair-bonding is mutually beneficial
          • love as a mechanismto keep pairs together
            • oxytocin
        • SPOT
          • evidence for dACC activity
            • treatment options - paracetamol
            • cyberball
      • Disgust
        • insula specific to disgust (BET)
        • insula involved in realising core affect (TCE)

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