30/11/2019
Emotions drive relationships
Emotions have meaning and importance
• The primary function of emotion is to mobilize the organism to deal quickly with important interpersonal events . • Events include: threats, attacks, alarms, courtships, social contact, isolation, greetings, appeasement, dominance, submission, and play.
1. Occur due to a change in the environment 2. Occur automatically and quickly 3. Changes attention and thought 4. Certain physical feelings 5. Motivates behaviour
Serves an adaptive function
– Robert Plutchik, psychologist
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Question…….
Test Yourself ! Implicit Association Test
• Do your emotions affect your judgement?
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
• Weight • Skin tone • Age • Race • Gender-Career
• Disability • Sexuality
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Emotions are survival mechanisms: Like instincts
The psychology of being human
• Emotions
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