4 Hours to Complete PPT
Chapter 3 Social Affect
29 March 2016
Psychology 321
Objectives Moods and Emotion in Our Social Lives
3.1
Identify a time when a particularly secondary emotion had an important influence on your life
Identify a time when your behavior or judgments were based more on affects than on cognition
Identify a time when you misattributed an emotion. Identify the impact of your misattributed emotions
Emotions
Emotions have social components
Frustrated by our stock trading decisions
In love with our car
Angry at our computers
Share Emotions
Social behavior
Facial expressions
Touch
Voice and posture
Poetry and Art
Emotions influence our social judgment
Objective Emotions, Stress and Well Being
3.2
Identify a them when you experienced stress. Did you understand you were experiencing it? Identify the emotional and psychological changes your experienced
Identify ways of dealing with stress and advice you can pass on to another to help them
Identify a time someone you know experienced depression or anxiety that was caused by or amplified by their social situation
Objectives How to Feel Better Coping with Negative Emotions
3.3
Thinking about yourself identify some things that make you happy and unhappy
Are you able to regulate your own emotions, identify strategies you might use
Identity a situation when you knew someone whom does not effectively regulate their emotions
Identify the things that you should and should not do in order to keep yourself happy and healthy
Closing Think like a Social Psychologist About Social Affect
Avoid as many negative emotions
Be positive
Believe you make a difference
Address your stress level
Relaxation or other factors to control it
Set realistic goals you can attain
Exercise and healthy behaviors
Avoid unhealthy activities (smoking, drinking, unsafe sex,
drug)
Realize - really!
Money will not buy you happiness