2007-02-13
- Coffee
- Grind and brew from Cuisanart
- Felt deceived/hard to clean
- Bought Espresso machine from Williams Sonoma
- Paul Ekman
- cross-cultural studies of emotion proved valid
- Six basic emotions
- Fear
- Kicks in when they start to crawl, interestingly enough
- Effects of dense fear in first 6 mo. are long-term
- Children can read these in the affect task
- FACS
- Facial Affect Coding System
- Cultural differences in the expression of the universally recognized emotions
- Destructive emotions and their control
- meeting with the Dalai Lama
- conversation between Buddhists and psychologists
- Emotion alert data base
- cell assemblies read to fire in repsonse to automatic appraisers
- automatic appraisers are continuously scanning triggers (events or moods) that might activate the cell assemblies and lead to emotional signals or behaviors about which we may become consciously aware
- sounds like a powder keg?
- Importing scripts
- Helen importing scripts from other parts of his life
- e.g. being bullied by big brother
- look out for hot triggers
- weakening emotional triggers
- attentiveness to our emotional feelings
- important because how we feel determines how we think
- factors to reduce heat, salience, and power of emotional trigger
- Closeness to the evolved theme
- resemblance to the original situation in which theme was learned
- how early in one's life trigger learned
- the initial emotional charge
- the density of the experience
- affective style/temperment
- lack of inhibition is one such affective style
- ARe emotions primary motivating forces?
- Cognitive Behaviour thearpy
- How we feel is colored by how we think about the world
- Does this disprove Ekman's approach?
- Ekman cites evolution and psychoanalysis
- Research in positive emotions
- we know least about these
- what does comfort entail?
- Keep things simple
- stick with the basic tenets
- Dimensions in emotion
- Pre-test/post-test
- Could use this for testing
- Assignment
- Pick one emotion from the second half of Ekman
- Think about relevance to our work
- Write a brief paper from the reading by 3/13