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To What Extent Do Cognitive and Biological Factors Interact in Emotion?

To What Extent Do Cognitive and Biological Factors Interact in Emotion?. Managing Relationships. culture influences the cognitive and biological factors that interact in emotion facial affect program focus on emotion of “fear”. Emotions influence behaviors. expressions - face and gestures

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To What Extent Do Cognitive and Biological Factors Interact in Emotion?

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  1. To What Extent Do Cognitive and Biological Factors Interact in Emotion?

  2. Managing Relationships • culture influences the cognitive and biological factors that interact in emotion • facial affect program • focus on emotion of “fear”

  3. Emotions influence behaviors • expressions - face and gestures • subjective experiences - feelings • biological reactions - heart rate • cognitions - attributions, memories, perceptions • motor behavior - running away, hitting

  4. Emotions are fundamental to • humans when decoding the intentions of others • AND essential to social cognitions • AND part of social intelligence. • Example: Autism - Gazzaniga says it’s a difficulty labeling emotions v. biological explanation of mirror neuron failure

  5. Why we should look at culture

  6. Different Cultures

  7. Ekman and Friesen study the Fore Why the difficulty discerning between fear and surprise with the Fore? http://face.paulekman.com/default.aspx

  8. Insights offered by Buddhism • Ekman met with Dalai Lama and others • (2005) wrote that Buddhist views of emotional life reveal a great deal between biology, cognitions, and emotions. • no word for “happiness” in Buddhism • “sukha” - a flourishing that arises fro mental balance and insight into the nature of reality • seeing things as they really are without distortions due to how things should be. • now word for “emotion” - emotions relate to cognitions that are inseparable from physiology.

  9. Role of amygdala in fear - Phelps fMRI • right amygdala active due to a conditioned fear • left amygdala active when threat is learned through language

  10. Amygdala

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