Emotions

• The Perception Action Model of Empathy presented abilities of increased self other distinction. The abilities that belong to this model:

  • Motor mimicry
  • imitation
  • Emotional contagion
• The Perception Action Model of Empathy describes shared representation for perceiving and generating actions
• Broaden and Build Theory of Positive Emotions:

  • It states that positive emotions help broaden an individuals momentary mindset
  • States that positive emotions help build on one's personal resources
• Phylogeny of laughter:

  • emotional behaviours may change in form and function over time
  • they are not rigid
  • they may emerge from simple outbursts and evolve into complex behaviours that play an important social role
• Barbara Fredrickson (2003) argued that we need to treat positive and negative emotions differently and apply different theoretical models for them:

  • Negative- more immediate needs
  • Positive- serve over long period
  • she then developed the Broadman and Build Theory of Positive Emotions
• Right hemisphere hypothesis:

  • the right hemisphere is dominant for emotion recognition
  • coincides with traditional view; lateralization of the brain function
• How animals vote:

  • meerkats use vocalisation in the context of movement decisions
  • moving cells emitted by meerkats increased the speed of the group
  • groups only increase speed in response to playbacks of moving cells from one individual when other group members emitted moving cells as well