Date |
Topic |
Videos |
Readings |
WEEK 1 |
WEEK 1
Lecture 1
|
Introduction
Question: What is an emotion? |
1.1
1.2 |
Required
» Chapter 1 (textbook)
» Ekman (1992). An argument for basic emotions.
Optional
» Barrett (2012). Emotions are real.
» James (1884). What is an emotion?
» Gross (2010). The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades. |
WEEK 1
Lecture 2 |
Manipulating &
measuring emotions
Question: How do you trigger emotions? |
2.1
2.2
2.3 |
Required
» Mauss & Robinson. (2005). Measures of emotion: A
review.
Optional
» Rottenberg, Ray, & Gross (2007). Emotion elicitation using films.
» Coan & Allen (2007). Organizing the tools and methods of affective science.
» Levenson (2007). Emotion elicitation with neurological patients. |
WEEK 1
Lecture 3 |
Emotions in man and
animals
Question: Do monkeys and dogs have feelings like us? |
3.1
3.2
3.3 |
Required
» Chapter 2 (textbook)
Optional
» Parr (2003). Discrimination of faces and their emotional content by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
» Darwin (1872). Emotional Expression in Man and Animals
» Panksepp (2005). Beyond a joke: From animal laughter to human joy? |
WEEK 1
Lecture 4 |
Evolution and emotion
Question: Are emotions evolutionarily evolved? |
4.1
4.2
4.3 |
Required
» Chapter 3 (textbook)
Optional
» Ekman (1994). Strong evidence for universals in facial expressions.
» Nesse (2004). Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness. |
WEEK 2 |
WEEK 2
Lecture 5 |
Culture, gender, and sex
Question: Let's talk about sex (and culture)? |
5.1
5.2
5.3
|
Required
» Chapter 9 (textbook)
» Kring & Gordon (1998). Sex differences in emotion
Optional
» Tsai. (2007). Ideal affect: Cultural causes and behavioral consequences.
» Wong, Y. & Tsai, J. L. (2007). Cultural models of shame and guilt.
» Chivers et al. (2004). A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal. |
WEEK 2
Lecture 6
|
Emotional behavior
Question: Why do we laugh, cry, and touch? |
6.1
6.2
6.3
|
Required
» Chapter 4 (textbook)
» Rottenberg, J. et al. (2008). Is crying beneficial?
Optional
» Bachorowksi & Owren M. (2001). Not all laughs are alike.
» Keltner, D. (2009). "Laughter" from Born to Be Good
» Hertenstein et al. (2006). Touch communicates distinct emotions. |
WEEK 2
Lecture 7 |
Bodily Changes and
Emotion
Question: Blood and sweat = tears and fears? |
7.1
7.2
7.3 |
Required
» Chapter 5 (textbook)
» Zajonc & McIntosh (1992). Emotions research: Some promising questions and some questionable promises.
Optional
» Levenson (2003). Blood, sweat, and fears: The autonomic architecture of emotion.
» Levenson et al. (1990). Voluntary facial activity generates emotion-specific autonomic nervous system activity. |
WEEK 2
Lecture 8 |
Emotions and the Brain
Question: Is our brain really emotional? |
8.1
8.2
8.3 |
Required
» Dagleish (2004). The emotional brain
Optional
» LeDoux, J. (2000). Emotion circuits in the brain.
» Davidson et al. (1990). Emotional expression and brain physiology: approach/withdrawal and cerebral asymmetry
» Lieberman et al. (2007). Putting feelings into words: Affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli.
» Rolls, E. T. (2000). Precis of the brain and emotion. |
WEEK 3
EXAM #1 |
WEEK 3
Lecture 9 |
Emotions and the self
Question: What are self-conscious emotions? |
9.1
9.2
9.3 |
Required
» Tangney (1996). Are shame, guilt, and embarrassment distinct emotions?
Optional
» Keltner & Anderson. (2000). Saving face for Darwin: The function and uses of embarrassment.
» Tracy, J. L. & Robins, R. W. (2007). The nature of pride. |
WEEK 3
Lecture 10 |
Emotion & the social
world
Question: Living in a social world?
|
10.1
10.2
10.3 |
Required
» Chapter 9 (textbook)
Optional
» Lieberman & Eisenberger (2009). Pains and pleasures of social life.
» Graham et al. (2004). Willingness to express negative emotions promotes relationships.
» Levenson & Gottman. (1983). Marital interaction: Physiological linkage and affective exchange. |
WEEK 3
Lecture 11 |
Morality & Emotion
Question: Do emotions make us moral? |
11.1
11.2
11.3 |
Required
» Haidt (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology.
Optional
» Pizarro, Inbar & Helion (2011). On disgust and moral judgment.
» Haidt, J. (2003). The moral emotions.
» Greene et al (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment.
» Wheatley, T. & Haidt, J. (2005). Hypnotic disgust makes moral judgments more severe. |
WEEK 3
Lecture 12 |
Cognition and Emotion
Question: How does thinking affect feeling? |
12.1
12.2
12.3 |
Required
» Chapter 10 (textbook)
» Clore et al (2000). Cognition in emotion: Always, sometimes, or never.
Optional
» Lazarus (1984). On the primacy of cognition.
» Zajonc (1984). On the primacy of affect.
» Ohman et al (2001). Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass. |
WEEK 4 |
WEEK 4
Lecture 13 |
Judgment and Decision-
Making
Question: Does our wallet reflect our feelings? |
13.1
13.2
13.3 |
Required
» Lerner (2004). Heart strings and purse strings: Carryover effects of emotions on economic decisions
Optional
» Knutson et al (2007). Neural predictors of purchases.
» Han, S. et al. (2005). Feelings and consumer decisionmaking: The appraisal-tendency framework.
» Lowenstein & Lerner (2003). The role of affect in decisionmaking. |
WEEK 4
Lecture 14 |
Emotion Regulation
Question: Can we change our emotions? |
14.1
14.2
14.3 |
Required
» Chapter 11 (pp. 292-295)
» Gross (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review.
Optional
» Gross & Levenson (1993). Emotional suppression: Physiology, Self-report, and Expressive Behavior.
» Lewis, Zinbarg & Durbin (2010). Advances, problems, and challenges in the study of emotion regulation: A commentary |
WEEK 4
Lecture 15 |
Emotional Development
Question: How do emotions grow? |
15.1
15.2
15.3 |
Required
» Chapter 8 (textbook)
» Scheibe & Carstensen (2010). Emotional aging: Recent findings and future trends.
Optional
» Campos (1989). Emergent themes in the study of emotional development and emotion regulation.
» Kagan & Snidman, (1991). Temperamental factors in human development. |
WEEK 4
Lecture 16 |
Emotion and Physical
Health
Question: Is there a mind-body connection? |
16.1
16.2
16.3 |
Required
» Walker, M. P. & van der Helm, E. (2009). Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing.
» Folkman & Moskowitz (2000). Stress, positive emotion, and coping.
Optional
» Stansbury, K. & Gunnar, M. R. (1994). Adrenocortical Activity and Emotion Regulation |
WEEK 5
EXAM #2 |
WEEK 5
Lecture 17 |
Emotional Disorders
Question: When is emotion too much? |
17.1
17.2
17.3 |
Required
» Gruber & Keltner (2007). Emotional behavior and psychopathology: A survey of methods and concepts.
» Kring (2008). Emotion disturbances as transdiagnostic processes in psychopathology.
Optional
» Rottenberg (2005). Mood and emotion in major depression.
» Kring & Moran (2008). Emotional response deficits in schizophrenia: Insights from affective science.
» Aldao et al. (2010). Emotion regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review. |
WEEK 5
Lecture 18
|
Emotion and Mental Health
Question: How to cultivate healthy feelings? |
18.1
18.2
18.3 |
Required
» Bonanno (2004). Loss, trauma and human resilience.
» Rottenberg & Gross (2007). Emotion and emotion regulation: A map for psychotherapy researchers.
» Folkman & Moskowitz (2000). Stress, positive emotion, and coping.
Optional
» Greenberg & Safran (1989). Emotion in psychotherapy. |
WEEK 5
Lecture 19 |
Happiness
Question: Don't worry, be happy? |
19.1
19.2
19.3 |
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.
» Pennebaker (1997). Writing about emotional experiences as a therapeutic process. |
WEEK 5
Lecture 20 |
The Future of Emotion
Question: What does the future hold? |
20.1 |
Required
» None
Optional
» None |
