2007-02-13

  • Coffee
    • Grind and brew from Cuisanart
      • Felt deceived/hard to clean
    • Bought Espresso machine from Williams Sonoma
      • 10x the price
      • trust
      • pleasure
      • health
      • beauty
      • ease of use
  • Paul Ekman
    • non-verb behavior
    • moved to faces
    • cross-cultural studies of emotion proved valid
    • Six basic emotions
      • Sadness
      • Anger
      • Disgust/contempt
      • Fear
        • Kicks in when they start to crawl, interestingly enough
        • Not being held anymore
        • Effects of dense fear in first 6 mo. are long-term
      • Surprise
      • Happiness
    • Children can read these in the affect task
    • FACS
      • Facial Affect Coding System
    • Detecting deception
    • 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 and Him
      • Helen importing scripts from other parts of his life
        • e.g. being bullied by big brother
      • Paul and Mary Ann
        • Abandonment issues
      • 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?
  • James Pennebaker
  • Keep things simple
    • stick with the basic tenets
  • Dimensions in emotion
    • Pleasantness
    • Intensity/Arousal
    • Domination
    • Also the mood grid
      • Axes
        • Pleasant
        • Arousal
    • 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

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