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Emotion, Stress & health Ekman found 6 facial expressions that could be recognized around the world • What 6 emotions do you suppose those are that are expressed with the same ‘face’ around the world? Can you draw a picture for each? • • • • • • • • Surprise Disgust Happiness Sadness Anger Fear Pride Contempt Ekman knows which muscles you need for each of these emotions Can you imagine a different “feeling” for each? • • • • Sadness Anger Fear Pride Why do we need emotion? • What purpose does it serve? Brain and body: Experience + physiological activity • Amygdala – QUICK response, straight from thalamus – arousal in ANS – SLOW response from thalamus via cortex – ok to turn off the fear? Or not…. • Pre-frontal Cortex* – Approach! Good! – Avoid this! Bad! *When damaged in “frontal lobotomy,” people do neither – they do nothing. Mirror neurons, facial feedback, empathy and “contagious” moods • A happy brain makes us smile, but a smile can make our brain happier, too • When we see others smile, our smiling neurons fire, too… so… • Smiling is “contagious” Try this…. If your last name begins A-L • Hold the end of your pen between your teeth If your last name begins M-Z • Hold the end of your pen between your lips Gender Differences in Emotion • Feeling or Expression? Can stress make you sick? • Stressors very likely to affect the immune system: – Work related: unemployment and colds! – Noise: airports and blood pressure, hormones, learning problems – Bereavement/loss: Widowed men’s mortality rate rises – Poverty, powerlessness, low status Is the glass half full? • How do optimists approach problems? • How do pessimists approach problems? Which is more likely to lead to a heart attack… • Anger? • A heavy workload? Who benefits from forgiveness? Who benefits from holding a grudge?