Across
- 1. A small set of emotion categories, or families of emotions, that are considered to be universal to all humans, biologically based and genetically coded, and evolutionarily based. Humans come into the world with programs for these basic emotions; social and cultural learning then influences how they are used in life.
- 5. studies A series of studies that demonstrated the pancultural universality of facial expressions of emotion.
- 6. decoding Culturally prescribed rules that govern how emotions should be perceived.
- 10. Relatively fewer amounts and forms of knowledge, awareness, and thought about something compared to the usual. This term was coined by Levy to refer to cultures that lack (hypocognize) words to different emotional states.
- 11. disengaging Emotions that occur as a result of themes grounded in independence and autonomy of the self, and its separateness from others.
- 12. thinking The tendency to accept what seem to be contradictions in thought or beliefs.
- 13. Relatively greater amounts and forms of knowledge, awareness, and thought about something that go beyond the usual. This term was coined by Levy to refer to cultures that create (hypercognize) many words to differentiate many different emotional states.
- 14. Transient, neurophysiological reactions to events that have consequences for our welfare, and require an immediate behavioral response. They include feelings, but also physiological reactions, expressive behaviors, behavioral intentions, and cognitive changes.
Down
- 2. Hypo cognition that focus on the self, such as shame, guilt, pride, or embarrassment. They are important in studies or culture because humans universally have a unique knowledge of self that is different from that of other animals, thus giving rise to self-conscious emotions.
- 3. antecedents The events or situations that elicit or trigger an emotion.
- 4. Cultural values associated with how people want to feel.
- 6. display Culturally prescribed rules that govern how universal emotions can be expressed. These rules center on the appropriateness of displaying emotion, depending on social circumstances. Learned by people early in their lives, they dictate how the universal emotional expressions should be modified according to the social situation. By adulthood, these rules are quite automatic, having been very well practiced.
- 7. complexity The idea that positive and negative emotions can co-occur and be experienced simultaneously.
- 8. How people actually feel. affect: How people actually feel.
- 9. Feelings, or subjective experience.
- 11. engaging Emotions that occur as a result of themes derived from social interdependence and relationships with others.