| We’ve all been mad, sad, happy, and disgusted. Some of us get nostalgic us are easily embarrassed. We’ve been feeling these emotions nearly our whole lives, and this makes us all emotion experts of a sort. Nonetheless, these feelings can be mysterious. Where do they come from? Do people across all cultures experience similar emotions? How can we regulate our emotions? Do emotions make us less rational? Do they make us smarter? What triggers certain emotions? Are there gender differences in emotions?
The science of emotion is fairly young, but there has been an enormous amount of progress in understanding emotional phenomena in the last few decades. In this course, we will tackle the aforementioned questions and more. By the end of the course you should be familiar with the most influential theories of emotion--from the evolutionary explanations of emotion to the developmental and social factors involved in making us emotional creatures. So while we are all intuitive experts on emotion, by the end of the course you will have a different kind of expertise--one grounded in the most recent scientific discoveries in this exciting field. |
| Final Exam Date - September 10th, 2008 12:57pm |
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L Exam Period Dec 16 2:00 - 4:30pm |