After reading the chapter I had to think awhile longer to decide which perspective on emotions made the most sense to me. The four views of emotions are organismic, perceptual, cognitive labeling, and interactive. After reviewing i decided that the organismic and interactive views on emotion were most sensible to me. While the perceptual and cognitive views came to be a little confusing to me. The definitions of organismic and interactive were more straight forward to me and to the point. The organismic view of emotions can be defined as the theory that an external phenomenon causes physiological changes that lead us to experience emotions. The interactive view of emotions states that the social rules and understandings shape what people feel and how they express and withhold feelings. I guess these make the most sense to me because that is how I view emotion. These two views give me more insight to emotion than the others because the chronological order with perceptual and cognitive labeling is just confusing to me. I don’t know it just throws me off.
Hi Petey,
ReplyDeleteYou make some interesting points here. At first I found the perspective of emotions confusing but after reading over the text book again, I think I found a grasp for it. In your post you talk about the interactive view of emotion. In hindsight I think the interactive view of emotions sets the boundaries on how we react to a situation. The definition of interactive emotion says social constructs and rules shapes our understandings. For example, when we see another country burning a flag the emotion that it make provoke is anger. Another example can be when a baby is born people are happy. Additionally, there is emotional construct to be nuetral in society if someone is acting out of their emotional construct it will be weird.
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