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emotion psychology human behavior happiness

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This lecture covers various aspects of emotion, including the physiological, expressive, and cognitive components. It discusses different theories of emotion, such as the James-Lange theory and Schachter's two-factor theory. Furthermore, the lecture touches upon correlating happiness and its roots.

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 Differences between humans and other animals  What is emotion?  A construct that is difficult to define  Three agreed-upon characteristics  Internal physiological arousal  Expressive behavior in the face and body  Cognitive appraisal  J...

 Differences between humans and other animals  What is emotion?  A construct that is difficult to define  Three agreed-upon characteristics  Internal physiological arousal  Expressive behavior in the face and body  Cognitive appraisal  James-Lange theory of emotions  Common sense view of emotions  James-Lange view of emotions  Cannon-Bard theory of emotions  Physiological/behavior responses are experienced independently of emotional responses  Brain centers of emotion  Limbic system and cerebral cortex  Emotions are not only subjective  Nonverbal communication  Facial expression  Charles Darwin (1872)  Paul Ekman et al.  Carroll Izard et al.  Survival value of recognition  Body language  Sensory feedback  Facial-feedback hypothesis  Fritz Strack et al. (1988)  Role of cognition in emotion  Schachter’s two-factor theory of emotion  Schachter and Singer (1962)  Misattribution  Dutton and Aron (1974)  Levels of happiness  Correlates of happiness  Roots of happiness  Money and happiness  Why money can’t buy happiness  Social-comparison theory  Biological set-point for happiness