Chapter 6

Key Terms

Moods: states resembling emotions but generally longer lasting, less intense, and of unknown cause.

Semantic dementia: a brain-damaged condition involving widespread loss of information about words and concepts.

Cognitive appraisal: the individual’s interpretation of the current situation, which influences the nature and intensity of his/her emotional experience.

Emotion regulation: the management and control of emotional states by various processes (e.g., reappraisal; distraction).

Distraction: an emotion-regulation strategy in which attention is switched from emotional processing to neutral information.

Reappraisal: an emotion-regulation strategy in which the emotional significance of an event is changed through additional cognitive processing.

Weblinks

Dr Paul Ekman’s official website
http://www.paulekman.com/

Paul Ekman discusses some of his classic research on facial expression of emotion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umhb95CyyUk

An emotion recognition test
https://se.unibet.com/hub/vad-avslojar-dina-ogon/en

Dr David Matsumoto talking about his research on facial expressions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G6ZR5lJgTI

A BBC quiz on spotting fake smiles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/index.shtml

William James’ (1884) classic paper “What is an emotion?”
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/emotion.htm

Chapter summarising the James-Lange theory of emotion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302966834_James-Lange_Theory_of_Emotion

An excerpt from a documentary on the brain and negative emotions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12Gw57ezek

An interview with Jaak Panksepp on his work on the neural origins of emotions
http://www.brainsciencepodcast.com/bsp/2010/1/13/affective-neuroscience-with-jaak-panksepp-bsp-65.html

Power, M.J., & Dalgleish, T. (2008). Cognition and emotion: From order to disorder (2nd ed.). There is a thoroughdiscussion of cognitive approaches to emotion in this excellent book
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415373548/

A useful summary of emotional regulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20UI3qEXy8