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Term emotions

Descript io n Brief, specific psychological and physiological responses that help humans meet goals, many of w hich are social. (page 197) The w ays people evaluate events and objects in their environment based on their relation to current goals. (page 198) Distinct themes, such as danger or offense or fairness, that define the core of each emotion. (page 198) An initial, automatic positive or negative evaluation of ongoing events based on w hether they are congruent or incongruent w ith an individuals goals. (page 198) A subsequent evaluation in w hich people determine w hy they feel the w ay they do about an event, consider possible w ays of responding to the event, and w eigh future consequences of different courses of action. (page 198)

appraisal processes core-relational themes primary appraisal stage secondary appraisal stage

principle of serviceable habits emotion accents

Charles Darw ins thesis that emotional expressions are remnants of full-blow n behaviors that helped our primate and mammalian predecessors meet important goals in the past. (page 200) Culturally specific w ays that individuals from different cultures express particular emotions, such as the tongue bite as an expression of embarrassment in India. (page 205) Emotions that are especially common w ithin a particular culture. (page 206) To represent a particular emotion w ith numerous w ords and concepts. (page 207) Culturally specific rules that govern how and w hen and to w hom people express emotion. (page 207)

focal emotions hypercognize display rules

infrahumanization The tendency to be reluctant to attribute more complex emotions, such as pride or compassion, to outgroup members. (page 216) feelings-asinformation perspective processing style perspective A theory that since many judgments are too complex for people to thoroughly review all the relevant evidence, they rely on their emotions to provide them w ith rapid, reliable information about events and conditions w ithin their social environment. (page 217) A theory that different emotions lead people to reason in different w aysfor example, that anger facilitates reliance on preexisting heuristics and stereotypes, w hereas sadness facilitates more careful attention to situational details. (page 221) The hypothesis that positive emotions broaden thought and action repertoires, helping people build social resources. (page 222) The relative unimportance of the length of an emotional experience, be it pleasurable or unpleasant, in judgments of the overall experience. (page 223) Predicting future emotionsfor example, w hether an event w ill result in happiness or anger or sadness, and for how long. (page 224) The tendency for people to underestimate their capacity to be resilient in responding to
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broaden-andbuild hypothesis duration neglect

affective forecasting immune neglect

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difficult life events, w hich leads them to overestimate the extent to w hich lifes difficulties w ill reduce their personal w ell-being. (page 225) focalism A tendency to focus too much on a central aspect of an event w hile neglecting to consider the impact of ancillary aspects of the event or the impact of other events. (page 225)

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