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Motivation & Emotion Part 3
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Functional Approaches
Why do we have emotions?
Emotions:
Are not endpoints
Motivate behavior!
Affect attention, learning, memory, regulatory variables, goal priorities, social interactions
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Functional Approaches
What is the purpose of each of these emotions?
Anger
Fear
Happiness
Disgust
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Functional Approaches
Anger:
Implies someone has experienced loss/injustice and deserves redress.
Increases intensity of response (sometimes aggression)
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Functional Approaches
Fear:
Heightens attention to threatening information, motivates
Fight/flight response
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Functional Approaches
Happiness:
Communicates that it’s ok for others to approach
Facilitates social interactions
Activated by gain/reward
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Functional Approaches
Disgust:
Avoid/reject noxious stimulus
Protective
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Emotion Regulation
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Thought suppression
Thought suppression
When we suppress negative thoughts, we are trying not to feel or respond to the emotion at all
Extremely difficult and often leads to a rebound effect
Rumination involves thinking about, elaborating, and focusing on undesired thoughts or feelings
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Myth: If we’re upset about something, we should just try to put it out of our minds.
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Cognitive Reappraisal
Cognitive Reappraisal: change your thoughts about the event that is causing the emotion
Positive Reappraisal
We directly alter our emotional reactions to events by thinking about those events in more neutral terms
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Distraction
Involves doing or thinking about something other than the troubling activity or thought
Some distractions backfire as we may end up thinking about other problems
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Emotions Influence Thinking
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Affect as information
People judge something as good or bad by asking themselves “How do I feel about it?”
We use our current moods to make decisions, judgments, and appraisals.
We draw our moods even if we don't know their sources
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Affect as Information
Emotions are informative when making judgments
Why?
They provide us with a quick rapid signal about our environment
Many judgements are often too complex to take in all information, so we often rely on a more simple assessment of our current feelings (aka emotions as heuristics)
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Affect as Information
Schwarz & Clore (1983)
IV: Called people on sunny vs. overcast days
IV: Mentioned the weather or not
DV: Asked people to rate their satisfaction with life
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Affect as Information
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Affect as Information
Schwarz & Clore (1983)
People indicated higher life satisfaction (and mood) on sunny vs. overcast days
However, if the researcher first mentioned the weather, this effect went away
When participants realized their mood came from an irrelevant source (the weather) they treated it as useless information for their current judgement
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Looking forward
Sunday 5/9
Due: Motivation & Emotion Concept Check
Monday 5/10
Zoom review covering Personality, Motivation & Emotion
Due: Applied Psychology Assignment 2
Due: All missing assignments (Applied Psych, Research Experiences, Concept Checks)
A Kahoot! covering questions from the entire course will be available on Backboard to help you study
Final Exam – Posted on Blackboard
PS-151-03 (9am): Thursday, May 13th at 9 am
PS-151-04 (11am): Wednesday, May 12th at 12 pm
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