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| occurs when expressions amplify our emotions by cultivating muscels associated with specific states; additionally, imitating another's facial expression leads to greater empathy with that person's feelings. |
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| self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. |
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| the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. |
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| occassions when our arousal response to one event carries over to another event. |
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| according to this researcher, emotions arise when we appraise them as beneficial or harmful to our well-being; argues most emotions require coginitive processing. |
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| feel-good, do-good phenomenon |
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| people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. |
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| fears that fall outside the average range; shaped by both our experiences and our genes. |
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| the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whome one compares oneself. |
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| the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. |
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| Schacter-Singer's two-factor theory |
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| theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label arousal. |
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| a test that assesses a suspect's knowledge of details of a crime that only a guilty person should know. |
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| believed that the feeling of emotion can precede our cognitive labeling of that emotion. |
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| Moving out body as we would when expecting a particular emotion causes us to feel that emotion. |
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| arousal ______ emotion; cognition ______ emotion. |
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| adaption level phenomenon |
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| our tendency to form judgements (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by out prior experience. |
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| anterior cingulate cortex |
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| a higher-level center for processing emotion that channels imput to the amygdala. |
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| part of this part part of the brain can trigger similing and laughter: |
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| communication through body expressions. |
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| brain area associated with depression |
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| a machine commonly used in attempts to detech lies that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes). |
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| brain area involved in fear and anger |
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| a response of the whole organism, (1) physiological, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. |
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| "emotional release" hypothesis that maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy, through action or fantasy, relieves aggressive urges. |
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| area of the brain associated with positive moods; contains a rich supplu of dopamine receptors. |
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