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Day 10 - Emotion and Motivation - BB
Day 10 - Emotion and Motivation - BB
Summer 2020
MOTIVATION Dr. Macura
OUTLINE
Emotional Experience: Feeling
Machine
EmoComm: Facial Expressions
Theories of Emotion
Motivation: Being Moved
Wanting
The Body’s Desires
The Mind’s Desires
EMOTIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
THE FEELING
MACHINE
Reappraisal
Changing one’s emotional experience by changing the meaning of
the emotion-eliciting stimulus
Theories of Emotion
“COMMON SENSE” VIEW
Dutton, D. G. and Aron, A. P. (1974). Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of
high anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30, 510–517.
The Emotional Brain
THE AMYGDALA
THE AMYGDALA
The threat detector!
Appraisal happens here: