PSY5333 Psychology of Emotion
Emotions are considered as adaptive mechanisms that are part of human functioning and human experience. The history of attempts to understand emotions in Western Society and the theories developed in Psychology will be studied. The physiological mechanisms underlying emotions will be stressed including the debate on emotional expression. The primary emotions of joy, distress, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust will be presented and compared with the secondary, social and higher cognitive emotions such as embarrassment, love guilt, shame, pride, jealousy, etc. The relations between emotions and feelings and consciousness will be explored. Selections from the work of James, Cannon, Arnold, Ekman, LeDoux, Lewis and Damasio.