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What book on the perceptual theory was written by James Laird?
Feelings
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What is Laird's job title?
psychologist
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What is Jesse Prinz's profession?
philosopher
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What discipline examines the role emotions play in culture?
sociology
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What discipline makes use of ethnography?
anthropology
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What field of study studies the organizational role of emotions?
communication sciences
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Who developed the concept of emotional labor?
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Roughly how many people are part of EmoNet?
700
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Along with anger, pride and happiness, what is an example of an emotional label?
fear
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Aside from increased perspiration, what is a physiological change related to emotions?
changes in pulse rate
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Along with smiling and frowning, what is an example of a facial or body movement caused by emotion?
baring teeth
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Who developed a comprehensive theory related to human emotional arousal?
Jonathan Turner
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How many emotional categories did Turner recognize as being founded on human neurology?
four
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Along with William James, who was an influential 19th century theorist?
Carl Lange
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What was William James' nationality?
American
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What was the nationality of Carl Lange?
Danish
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What was the name of the theory that Lange and James developed independently?
the James–Lange theory
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In what year did Lange die?
1900
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Along with psychology, neuroscience, endocrinology, medicine, history and sociology, what field has engaged in research on emotion?
computer science
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Along with dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, cortisol and oxytocin, what neurotransmitter or hormone influences emotion?
GABA
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Along with the experience, function and origin of emotion, what aspect of emotion does current research attempt to explain?
neurobiology
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What are emotional episodes defined in contrast to?
emotional dispositions
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What other traits are emotional dispositions similar to?
character traits
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What category is defined to contain pleasure, pain, motivation, moods and dispositions?
affective states
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What theory sees an emotional episode as consisting of components?
psychological construction
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At what point does psychological construction theory believe the components of an emotion are put together?
at the moment of its occurrence
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What is an example of an emotion that, under psychological construction theory, is not the same from one case to another?
fear
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Who argued that physiological responses were insufficient to explain emotional experiences?
Walter Bradford Cannon
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Along with the physiological response, what did Cannon believe was triggered by an emotional event?
a conscious experience of an emotion
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Why did Cannon believe that physiological responses were insufficient cause for emotions?
too slow and often imperceptible
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Who developed a situated perspective on emotion along with Andrea Scarantino?
Paul E. Griffiths
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What factors did the situated perspective believe to be most important?
external
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The situated perspective was influenced by what school of thought?
situationism
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Along with infant and animal emotion, what did Scarantino and Griffiths believe the situated perspective could help to explain?
phobias
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When did Broca publish his pioneering work?
1878
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Who published a work in 1937 on the relationship between emotion and the limbic system?
Papez
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Along with the cingulate cortex and hippocampi, what structure is a notable part of the limbic system?
hypothalamus
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Along with the philosophies of music and art, what field of philosophy studies emotions?
ethics
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Along with drama and melodrama, in what filmmaking genre does emotion play an important role?
romance
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Of what discipline is ethology a branch?
zoology
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Along with laboratory work, what does an ethologist engage in?
field science
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Along with evolution, what area of study is ethology tied to?
ecology
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Who discussed the idea of a collective effervescence?
Emilé Durkheim
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What society was studied to describe the notion of collective effervescence?
Australian aborigine society
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Durkheim saw collective effervescence in what Australian aboriginal activity?
totemic rituals
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What is another term for collective effervescence?
emotional energy
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What theory was developed by Arnold?
the appraisal theory of emotions
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When did Richard Lazarus die?
2002
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Who wrote 'What Is An Emotion?'?
Robert C. Solomon
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Who published What Is An Emotion?: Classic and Contemporary Readings?
Oxford
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What is Nico Frijda's nationality?
Dutch
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When did the word emotion enter the English language?
1579
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From what French word is emotion derived?
émouvoir
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What does émouvoir mean in English?
to stir up
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Prior to the introduction of the word emotion, what word was used in its place?
passion
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Along with anxiety, what is an example of directionless emotion?
depression
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What is the thalamus a part of?
the diencephalon
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Who argued that an emotional stimulus triggered experiential and physiological responses to emotions at the same time?
Cannon
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What creatures did Bard experiment on?
animals
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Along with sensory and motor information, what information had to pass through the diencephalon before being processed?
physiological
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Who wrote The Passions, Emotions and the Meaning of Life?
Robert C. Solomon
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In what year was The Passions, Emotions and the Meaning of Life published?
1993
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What does Solomon believe emotions to be?
judgments
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Whose theory discussed action tendencies?
Nico Frijda
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The idea that judgment can't be identified with emotion is an objection to what school of thought?
cognitivism
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Who researched the role of emotional phenotype temperaments on social connectedness?
Kurt Kortschal
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From where do zygotes derive their genetic information?
their parental germ cells
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What percentage of difference is there between the genetic material of humans and the genetic material of chimpanzees?
1.2%
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How many million years ago did the evolution of chimpanzees and humans diverge?
five
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About how long ago did modern human beings first come into existence?
200,000 years
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Along with mood, temperament, disposition and motivation, what is emotion often tied to?
personality
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What do some theories see as an important part of emotion?
cognition
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Along with sweating and muscle tension, what might be a physiological response to danger?
rapid heartbeat and breathing
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Sweating is a product of the arousal of what system?
nervous
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Who described the concept of a continuum of intensity?
Michael C. Graham
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What is Michael Graham's profession?
Psychotherapist
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What is an example of an extreme form of fear?
terror
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What would be an example of mild shame?
embarrassment
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What are non-intense feelings that lack a contextual stimulus called?
Moods
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Who has argued that emotions are discrete?
Paul Ekman
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How many basic emotions did Ekman recognize?
six
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Along with anger, disgust, happiness, sadness and fear, what is one of Ekman's basic emotions?
surprise
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What school of thought saw emotion as an impediment to virtue?
stoic
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What thinker believed that emotions were necessary for virtue?
Aristotle
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What did the Aristotelians call emotions?
passions
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Who was a notable scholastic thinker?
Thomas Aquinas
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Along with Descartes, Machiavelli and Hume, what notable philosopher developed a theory of emotions?
Baruch Spinoza
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Who wrote that exciting facts lead to emotions?
William James
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What did James believe a stimulus act upon to produce emotion?
the autonomic nervous system
[ "Emotion\n\nIn his 1884 article William James argued that feelings and emotions were secondary to physiological phenomena. In his theory, James proposed that the perception of what he called an \"exciting fact\" directly led to a physiological response, known as \"emotion.\" To account for different types of emotio...
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What did James believe emotion was synonymous with?
the perception of bodily changes
[ "Emotion\n\nIn his 1884 article William James argued that feelings and emotions were secondary to physiological phenomena. In his theory, James proposed that the perception of what he called an \"exciting fact\" directly led to a physiological response, known as \"emotion.\" To account for different types of emotio...
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Who developed a theory similar to that of James?
Carl Lange
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What was the profession of Lange?
psychologist
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What historical school claims that sentiments and meta-emotions can be learned?
constructivist
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According to the constructivists, what is an example of a learned meta-emotion?
Schadenfreude
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Along with Germany, England, Spain and Australia, where has a research center on the history of emotions recently opened?
Sweden
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Along with class and race, what is regarded as an essential category of historical analysis?
gender
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Whose work did the theory of Stanley Schachter build on?
Gregorio Marañón
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What did Gregorio Marañón inject his patients with?
epinephrine
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What was the nationality of Gregorio Marañón?
Spanish
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Who was a notable student of Stanley Schachter?
Jerome Singer
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