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Topic |
Readings |
Expert Interview |
WEEK 1 1/13
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1.1 Introduction & Course Logistics Who and what?
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Required » Gross (2010). The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. Optional » Zajonc & McIntosh (1992). Emotions research: Some promising questions and some questionable promises.
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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1.2 History and Definitions What is an emotion? |
Required » Chapter 1 (textbook) Optional » Ekman (1992). An argument for basic emotions. » James (1884). What is an emotion? » Barrett (2012). Emotions are real.
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WEEK 2 1/20
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2.1 Manipulating Emotions How do you elicit emotions? |
Required » Mauss & Robinson. (2009). Measures of emotion: A review. Optional » Rottenberg, Ray, & Gross (2007). Emotion elicitation using films. » Levenson (2007). Emotion elicitation with neurological patients. » Roberts, Tsai, & Coan (2007). Emotion elicitation using dyadic tasks.
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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2.2 Measuring Emotions How do you measure emotions?
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Required » Coan & Allen (2007). Organizing the tools and methods of affective science. Optional » Robinson & Clore (2002). Belief and feeling: Evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-report » Rottenberg, Ray, & Gross (2007). Emotion elicitation using films.
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WEEK 3 1/27
OUTREACH PROJECT
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3.1 Function of Emotions What good are emotions? |
Required » Chapter 2 (textbook) » Nesse (2004). Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness. Optional » Tooby & Cosmides (2008). The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables.
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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3.2 Emotions in Man and Animals Do monkeys and dogs have feelings like us?
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Required » Bekoff (2000). Animal emotions: Exploring passionate natures. Optional » Darwin (1872). Emotional Expression in Man and Animals [Excerpt] » Parr (2003). Discrimination of faces and their emotional content by chimpanzees. » Panksepp (2005). Beyond a joke: From animal laughter to human joy?
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WEEK 4 2/3
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4.1 Emotion Expression Why do we smile, laugh, & cry?
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Required » Chapter 4 (textbook) » Rottenberg et al. (2008). Is crying beneficial?
Optional » Darwin (1982). Expression of emotion in man and animals (pp. 55-69). » Ekman (1993). Facial expression and emotion. » Bachorowksi & Owren (2001). Not all laughs are alike » Hertenstein et al. (2006). Touch communicates distinct emotions.
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Experts in Emotion Interview: Jo-Anne Bachorowksi or Jonathan Rottenberg
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4.2 Emotion, Gender & Sex What’s sex got to do with it?
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Required » Chivers et al. (2004). A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal. Optional » Kring & Gordon (1998). Sex differences in emotion » DeSteno et al. (2002). Sex differences in jealousy: Evolutionary mechanism or artifact of measurement? » Gonzaga et al. (2006). Romantic love and sexual desire in close relationships.
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WEEK 5 2/10
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5.1. Exam 1
EXAM #1 IN CLASS
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Required » None Optional » None
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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5.2 Emotions and the Self What are self-conscious emotions? |
Required » Keltner & Anderson. (2000). Saving face for Darwin: The function and uses of embarrassment. » Tangney (1996). Recent empirical advances in the empirical study of shame and guilt. Optional » Tracy & Robins. (2007). The nature of pride. » Lagattuta & Thompson (2007). The development of self-conscious emotions: Cognitive processes and social influences. » Wong & Tsai (2007). Cultural models of shame and guilt
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WEEK 6 2/17
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6.1 Emotions and Others Living in a socioemotional world?
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Required » Chapter 9 (textbook) » Algoe & Haidt (2009). The ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration. Optional » Smith et al. (2009). Exploring the when and why of schadenfreude. » Graham et al. (2004). Willingness to express negative emotions promotes relationships.
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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6.2 Sociocultural Context Are emotions cross-cultural?
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Required » Chapter 3 (textbook). » Tsai (2007). Ideal affect: Cultural causes and behavioral consequences. Optional » Keltner & Haidt (1999). Social functions of emotions at four levels of analysis. » Morelli, Lieberman, Zaki. (2015). The emerging study of positive empathy.
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WEEK 7 2/24
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7.1 Morality and Emotion Do emotions make us moral? |
Required » Haidt (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology. » Greene et al. (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment. Optional » Pizarro et al. (2011). On disgust and moral judgment. » Haidt. (2003). The moral emotions.
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Experts in Emotion Interview: |
7.2 Outreach Project PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE |
Required » None Optional » None
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WEEK 8 3/2
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8.1 Emotions in the Body Blood, sweat, tears, and fears?
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Required » Cacioppo et al. (2000). The psychophysiology of emotion. Optional » Levenson, R. W. (2003). Blood, sweat, and fears: The autonomic architecture of emotion. » Kreibig et al (2010). Autonomic nervous system activity in emotion: A review. » Ekman, Levenson, & Friesen (1983). Autonomic nervous system activity distinguishes among emotions.
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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8.2 Emotions in the Brain Your brain on emotion?
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Required » Ch 6 (textbook) » Dagleish (2004). The emotional brain. Optional » Lindquist et al. (2012). The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review. » LeDoux (2000). Emotion circuits in the brain. » Davidson et al. (1990). Emotional expression and brain physiology: approach/withdrawal and cerebral asymmetry
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WEEK 9 3/9
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9.1 Emotion Regulation Can we control our emotions? Should we control our emotions?
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Required » Gross (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review. Optional » Ochsner & Gross (2004). Thinking makes it so: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to emotion regulation. » Zelazo & Cunningham (2007). Executive function: Mechanisms underlying emotion regulation. » Lewis et al. (2010). Advances, problems, and challenges in the study of emotion regulation: A commentary
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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9.2 Unconscious Emotion Can we feel without knowing? |
Required » Williams & Bargh (2008). Keeping one’s distance: The influence of spatial distance cues on affect and evaluation. » Williams & Bargh (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Optional » Williams et al. (2009). The unconscious regulation of emotion.
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WEEK 10 3/16
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10.1 Exam 2
EXAM #2 IN CLASS
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Required » None Optional » None
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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10.2 Emotion and Aging Do emotions change as we grow old? |
Required » Scheibe & Carstensen (2010). Emotional aging: Recent findings and future trends. Optional » Chapter 8 (textbook) » Carstensen et al (2011). Emotional experience improves with age » Samanez-Larkin & Carstensen. (2011). Socioemotional functioning and the aging brain.
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WEEK 11 3/30
GUEST LECTURE:
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11.1 Emotion and Cognition I: How do feelings shape attention and memory?
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Required » Lazarus (1982). Thoughts on the relations between emotion and cognition. » Clore & Huntsinger (2007). How emotions inform judgment and regulate thought. Optional » Ohman et al (2001). Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass. » Phelps et al (1997). Emotional memory: What does the amygdala do?
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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11.2 Emotion and Cognition II: How do feeling shape judgments and decisions?
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Required » Lerner et al (2004). Heart strings and purse strings: Effects of emotions on economic decisions. Optional » Knutson et al (2007). Neural predictors of purchases. » Zajonc (1980). Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences.
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WEEK 12 4/6
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12.1 Emotional & Mental Health I: Anxiety and Fear Only thing to fear is fear itself? |
Required » Gruber & Keltner. (2007). Emotional behavior and psychopathology. Optional » Mennin et al. (2005). Preliminary evidence for an emotion regulation deficit model of generalized anxiety disorder.
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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12.2 Emotional & Mental Health II: Mania and Depression Emotion gone awry?
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Required » Gruber (2011). Can feeling too good be bad? Positive emotion persistence (PEP) in bipolar disorder. » Rottenberg (2005). Mood and emotion in major depression. Optional » Kring (2008). Emotion disturbances as transdiagnostic processes in psychopathology.
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WEEK 13 4/13
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13.1 Emotional Health How to cultivate healthy feelings? |
Required » Ch 14 (textbook) Optional » Walker& van der Helm (2009). Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing. » Folkman & Moskowitz (2000). Stress, positive emotion, and coping. » Rottenberg & Gross (2007). Emotion and emotion regulation: A map for psychotherapy researchers. » Bonanno (2004). Loss, trauma, and human resilience. » Pennebaker, J. W. (1993). Putting stress into words: Health, linguistic and therapeutic implications.
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Experts in Emotion Interview:
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13.2 Happiness Don’t worry, be happy?
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Required » Fredrickson (1998). What good are positive emotions? » Gruber, Mauss, & Tamir (2011). A dark side of happiness? How, when, and why happiness is not always good. Optional » Myers & Diener (1995). Who is happy? » Dunn et al. (2008). Spending money on others promotes happiness.
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WEEK 14 4/20
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14.1 Emotional Intelligence & The Future Where do we go from here?
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Required » Salovey & Mayer (1989). Emotional intelligence. Optional » Mayer et al. (2000). Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for intelligence. » Picard et al (2001). Toward machine emotional intelligence.
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Experts in Emotion Interview: None
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14.2 Feedback What do you need help on before next week? |
Required » None Optional » None |
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WEEK 15 4/27
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15.1
EXAM #3 IN CLASS
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Required » None Optional » None
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15.2
OUTREACH |
Required » None Optional » None
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