Emotions Involve

three things

1. Behavior response
2. Autonomic nervous system activation
3. Psychological, subjective state

Bear----Autonomic Arousal

-----Fear                 

Schacter's Experiment 1962

Injected with?

Epinephrine

-some were not informed

-those that were not informed had a greater emotional response

-subject felt the same emotion as confederate

Bear   --Autonomic arousal

                                        ---Emotion

Cognitive Appraisal

95 supposedly work

67 actually

measure autonomic nervous system activation

Facial Expressions influence emotions

Ekman and Colleges

-altered autonomic systems activity

-comic strip exp. smile and frown

Volitional Facial Paresis

Damage to Motor Cortex

cannot move face

only when emotional

Damage to the subcortical structures or insular cortex

no emtional expressions

-respond faster and more accurately if emotional face in the left visual field

-imaging studies show activation of right hem. during emotional recognition

1. Cingulate Cortex
2. Amygdala
3. Hypothalamus

Orbitofrontal Cortex

-phineas gage

-tony damasio patients

• reductions in self-concern(not as affected by emtion eliciting stimuli)
• altered emotional recognition
• unable to translate moral judgements into appropoate emtions or behaviors