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SUMMARY EMOTIONS: SCIENTIFIC AND CLINICAL ASPECTS

*this summary does not guarantee a passing grade on the exam, please study the materials yourself
*summary about the lectures, excludes the book

Week 1

Introduction video

Affective phenomena
 Preferences
 Attitudes
 Moods
 Affective predispositions
 Interpersonal stances
 Aesthetic emotions
 Utilitarian emotions

Features of emotions
 Reaction to a stimulus
 Appraisal (memory is important to us)
 Experience and expression
 Limited duration
 Motivation to display specific behaviours
 Capacity to regulate emotions
 Effect on the individual and others
 Adaptive (past-present-future)

Function of emotion
 Emotions help us display optimal behaviour in certain situations
o To display useful emotions and display adaptive behaviour the situation needs to
conform to:
 Accurate appraisal
 Proper degree of importance attached to situation
 Prioritizing goals corresponds with importance
 Reactions make sense for the situation
 High emotional intelligence
Duration
 Expressions - autonomic changes - self-reported emotions - mood - emotional disorders -
personality traits
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Lecture 1: evolutionary psychology

Origins of species (Darwin)
 Evolution is the explanation for the diversity of life on earth
 Natural selection is the driving force behind adaptive evolution

3 main characteristics of evolution
 Superabundance (more than you need)
 Variation
 (natural) selection

‘Natural selection is differential reproduction of characteristics which provide better survival by
enhancing adaptation to a given environment. The product of natural selection is the adaptation of
populations of organisms to their environment’

Examples of adaptation
 problem / pressure
o Avoid eating toxins → bitterness

, o Share costs of raising offspring → preference for males with status
o Find fertile mate → preference for younger mate
o Protect offspring → ‘cuteness’ of baby-like cues
o Epigenetics → the turning on or off of genes depending on the environment

Two different strategies
 Males tend to use statistical strategy, because sperm are expendable
 Women tend to use investment strategy, eggs are precious
 Intrasexual selection
o Individuals of one sex evolve traits that enable them to compete with other individuals
of the same sex and win mating opportunities
 Intersexual selection
o Individuals of one sex evolve traits that are preferred by members of the opposite sex,
this is referred to as ‘mate choice’ (feathers on a bird)

Crucial social motivations
 To enhance chances of survival of our genes
 Attachment
o Evolving into (romantic) bonds later
o Used for protection
 Hierarchy (power motivation)
o Status hierarchies: including taking care of those low in hierarchy/ stopping conflicts
among group members by alpha’s (more prominent in non-human primates)
 Affiliation
o Taking care of each other cooperatively
 In-group preference
o Antisocial towards outgroups

Methods to study evolutionary psychology
 Zoology (near relatives)
 Archaeology (human ancestry)
 Anthropology (contemporary societies in an earlier stage of development)

Evolution and psychology
 Adaptive problem of having many context specific brain programs
o May deliver conflicting outputs when simultaneously activated
 E.g., sleep management vs. predator threat
 Solution
o Equip the mind with superordinate programs that override and orchestrate lower
programs (emotions)

Emotions are
 Modes of functioning
 Coordinate physiological, cognitive, motivation, behavioural and subjective responses in
patterns that
o Increase the ability to meet the adaptive challenges of situations that have occurred
over evolutionary time
1. Emotion programs detect evolutionary reliable clues that a certain situation exists
a. E.g., predator avoidance includes change in heart rate, auditory activity, sleep
management and food intake
2. When triggered, they entrain a specific set of subprograms for solving problems that situation
posed in ancestral environment
3. Consequently: the whole system operates harmoniously
 To meet an evolutionary recurrent situation or condition: the adaptive problem you need:
o Cues that signal the presence of the situation
o Situation-detecting algorithms
 Algorithms that monitor for situation-defining cues (sensory detection,
threshold)

, o Algorithms that assign priorities
o An internal communication system
o → orchestrated response

Emotion research
 Usually just proximal
o What is it, how does it work?
o How does it develop in an individual?
 Equally important are however evolutionary questions
o How did the trait develop over time in the history of species?
o What evolutionary factors shaped the trait?
 Evolutionary genetics perspective (the selfish gene)
o Our genes are in charge: use us to get reproduced by our characteristics, including
emotions?

Influence of language
 Emerged about 200,000 years ago
o Development theory of mind
o Broadening repertoire of emotion expression
o Extending focus of behaviour from present moment to the future
o extending possibilities for cooperation

Classifications of emotions
 Valence is most often used for classification systems: is the emotion pleasant or unpleasant?
 But:
o There are no strict boundaries between emotion
o The internal state (emotion) is a result of specific kinds of situations
 Of which there are a lot
 Which overlap in their characteristics → overlapping constructs
 Perhaps even a multidimensional space with potentially an infinite number of
overlapping emotions
 Valence may be driving behaviour, but more fundamental for adaptation

Functions of emotions
 Positive emotions
o Motivate organism to take advantage of opportunities
 Negative emotions
o Motivate organism to
 Avoid misfortune by escaping
 Attacking
 Preventing internal harm
 Repairing loss or damage
 Can one emotion have different functions? → yes
 Can one function be served by different emotions? → yes

Emotions and communication
 Emotional expression
o The associated emotion program has been activated in the individual
o The identity of evolutionary recurrent situation being faced
 Some emotions have a more automatic display (e.g., sadness), yet a much larger set of
emotions exists with no automatic display (jealousy, guilt, boredom)
o These are also often the emotions that develop with age and are not as much inborn

Depression
 Evolution
o Low mood has advantages in certain situations
 Functions may be
o Cry for help

, o Disengaging investing in unfruitful endeavours (including submission: powerlessness
often accompanies depression)
o (re)establishing proximity/ attachment to someone
o However, does MDD have functions?
 Attachment theory
o Depression as an attempt to re-establish attachment
 Social comparison theory
o Submissiveness as self-protection, facilitated by a depressive mood
 Psychic pain hypothesis
o Depression as mental signal to protect oneself (postnatal depression)
 Criticism
o Is powerlessness restricted to social context?
o Humans have a very strong memory, potentially extending depressive episodes in
humans
 Implications
o If major depressive disorder is a dysfunctional form a low mood
 Examine healthy low mood and understand MDD better
 Treat the dysfunctional part
 Do not pathologize low mood
 If MDD is in itself functional
 In the case of analytical rumination: help in the task, what is needed
to accomplish your goal?
 In the case of fruitless endeavour: acknowledge the feeling
(mindfulness) and let go of the endeavour

Limitations of evolutionary psychology
 Hypotheses difficult to test and only lead to indirect evidence
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Lecture 2: emotion regulation

Emotion regulation
 You can influence your emotions depending on your goals
 Hedonic emotions
o Short goals to feel better and decrease unhappiness (e.g., eat chocolate)
 Instrumental
o Social or performance motives (e.g., expression of anger can affect your relations)

Emotion regulation strategies
 Situation selection
 Situation modification
 Attention deployment
 Cognitive change
 Response modulation (response focused, the rest is antecedent-focused)

Reappraisal
 E.g., being bullied makes you stronger
 Adaptive emotion regulation strategy
Expressive suppression
 E.g., trying to hide your tears to not show how upset you are
 Often less self-esteem and life satisfaction
 Maladaptive emotion regulation strategy

In-depth questions about the video


1. What if your hedonic goal does not match your instrumental goal, which goal wins?
 Which goal wins depends on what is your main goal and other aspects such as how
you value your emotions, your repertoire of emotion regulation strategies, your
emotion regulation abilities and your effort to employ a strategy

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