Emotions, Stress, and Health

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Emotions, Stress, and Health
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Emotion

• Purposes?
• A safeguard of survival
• An enrichment of experience
• A powerful communication system

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Emotion

• Emotion as Psychophysiological response
• Physiological arousal
• Behaviors
• Conscious experience
• (DVD Segment 20 The physiology of emotion)

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Emotion and physiology
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Brain and EmotionsFear the Amgydala
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Expressing Emotion
Human face 44 separate muscles 4 for chewing,
40 for facial expression! We are endowed with
substantial resources for facial expression
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Facial expressions and emotion

• Paul Ekmans research (Discovering Psych video
  Unit 12)
• Language of the face (Discovery Channel DVD
  segment)
• Exercise (Making faces)

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Anger
What to do with it? Catharsis theory (20/20
video Wendy)
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Stress and Health
Handout (Outline)