| Date |
Topic |
Readings |
Week 1:
Jan 12 |
Introduction
What is an emotion? |
Required
» None |
Week 1:
Jan 14 |
Emotions in man and animals
Do monkeys and dogs have feelings like us? |
Required
» Chapter 2 (pp. 40-51)
» Panksepp, J. (2005). Beyond a joke: From animal laughter to human joy?
» Parr, L. (2003). Discrimination of faces and their emotional content by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Optional
» Goodall, J. (1990). The Mind of the Chimpanzee.
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Week 2:
Jan 19 |
Manipulating and measuring emotions.
How do you trigger emotions? |
Required
» Chapter 1
Optional
» Rottenberg, Ray, & Gross (2007). Emotion elicitation using films.
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Week 2:
Jan 21 |
Evolution and Emotion
Are emotions evolutionary evolved? |
Required
» Chapter 2 (pp. 33-40)
» Chapter 3
Optional
» Wong, Y. & Tsai, J. L. (2007). Cultural models of shame and guilt.
Week 3:
Jan 26 |
Emotional intelligence
Are emotions a form of intelligence? |
Required
» Chapter 8 (pp. 217-218)
» Salovey, P., & Grewal, D. (2005). The science of emotional intelligence.
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Week 3:
Jan 28 |
Culture, gender, and sex
Let's talk about sex (and culture) |
Required
» Chapter 3 (finish, if not already done)
» Chapter 9 (pp. 232-239, 246-247)
» Chivers, M. L., et al. (2004). A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal.
» Kring. A. M. & Gordon, A. H. (1998). Sex differences in emotion: Expression, experience, and physiology.
Optional
» Carter, C. S. (1998). Neuroendocrine perspectives on attachment and love.
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Week 4:
Feb 2 |
Emotional expression
Why do we laugh, cry, and touch? |
Required
» Chapter 4
» Rottenberg, J. et al (2008). Is crying beneficial?
» Keltner, D. (2009). "Laughter" from Born to Be Good.
Optional
» Bachorowksi, J. & Owren, M. (2001). Not all laughs are alike: Voiced but not unvoiced laughter readily elicits positive affect.
» Hertenstein, M. J., et al. (2009). The communication of emotion via touch.
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Week 4:
Feb 4 |
Sleep and emotion
*Exam #1 Review*
Overnight therapy? |
Required
» Walker, M. P. & van der Helm, E. (2009). Overnight therapy?
Optional
» Hu, P et al. (2006). Sleep facilitates consolidation of emotional declarative memory.
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Week 5:
Feb 9 |
Exam #1
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Exam #1
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Week 5:
Feb 11 |
Emotion and social relationships
What's love got to do with it? |
Required
» Chapter 9 (pp. 225-239)
» Graham, S. M., et al. (2004). The positives of negative emotions: Willingness to express negative emotions promotes relationships.
Optional
» Levenson, R.W. & Gottman, J.M. (1983). Marital interaction: Physiological linkage and affective exchange.
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Week 6:
Feb 16 |
Emotions and the brain
Is our brain emotional? |
Required
» Chapter 6
Optional
» LeDoux, J. (2000). Emotion circuits in the brain.
» Davidson, R.J., et al. (1990). Emotional expression and brain physiology: Approach/Withdrawal and cerebral asymmetry.
» Rolls, E. T. (2000). Precis of the brain and emotion.
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Week 6:
Feb 18 |
Bodily changes and emotion
Blood, sweat, tears, and fears |
Required
» Chapter 5
» Levenson, R. W. (2003). Blood, sweat, and fears: The autonomic architecture of emotion.
Optional
» Levenson, R.W. et al. (1990). Voluntary facial activity generates emotion-specific autonomic nervous system activity.
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Week 7:
Feb 23 |
Morality and emotion
Do emotions make us moral? |
Required
» Haidt, J. (2003). The moral emotions.
» Greene et al (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment.
Optional
» Wheatley, T. & Haidt, J. (2005). Hypnotic disgust makes moral judgments more severe.
» Haidt, J. (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology.
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Week 7:
Feb 25 |
Emotions and the self
What are self-conscious emotions? |
Required
» Tracy, J. L. & Robins, R. W. (2007). The self in self-conscious emotions: A cognitive appraisal approach.
» Keltner, D. & Anderson, C. (2000). Saving face for Darwin: The function and uses of embarrassment.
Optional
» Tracy, J. L. & Robins, R. W. (2007). Emerging insights into the nature and function of pride.
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Week 8:
March 2 |
Emotional reasoning
How does thinking affect feeling? |
Required
» Chapter 10
Optional
» Blanchette, I. & Richards, A. (2004). Reasoning about emotional and neutral materials: Is logic affected by emotion?
» Gray, J. A. (2004). Integration of emotion and cognitive control.
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Week 8:
March 4 |
Consumerism and feelings
*Exam #2 Review*
Does our wallet reflect our feelings?
|
Required
» Han, S. et al. (2005). Feelings and consumer decision making
» Gorn, G. et al. (2001). When arousal influences ad evaluation and valence does not (and vice versa).
Optional
» Lerner, J. S. (2004). Heart strings and purse strings: Carryover effects of emotions on economic decisions.
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Week 9:
March 23 |
Exam #2
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Exam #2
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Week 9:
Mar 25 |
Emotion Regulation
Can we control our feelings? |
Required
» Chapter 11 (pp. 292-295)
» Gross, J. J. (1999). Emotion regulation: Past, present, and future.
Optional
» Gross, J.J., & Levenson, R.W. (1993). Emotional Suppression: Physiology, Self-report, and Expressive Behavior.
» Ochsner, K.N. & Gross, J.J. (2004). Thinking makes it so: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to emotion regulation.
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Week 10:
March 30 |
Emotional development, pt I
How do emotions grow? |
Required
» Chapter 8, 11 (p. 312)
Optional
» Campos, J. et al. (1989). Emergent themes in the study of emotional development and emotion regulation.
» Kagan, J., & Snidman, N. (1991). Temperamental factors in human development.
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Week 10:
April 1 |
Emotional development, pt II
How do emotions grow?
*Paper Due*
|
Required
» None
Optional
» None
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Week 11:
April 6 |
Emotional disorders in childhood
How early do emotions go awry? |
Required
» Chapter 11 (pp. 308-314)
Optional
» Dickstein, D. P. & Leibenluft, E. (2006). Emotion regulation in children and adolescents: Boundaries between normalcy and bipolar disorder.
» Capps, L., et al. (1992). Understanding of simple and complex emotions in non-retarded children with autism.
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Week 11:
April 8 |
Anxiety and Fear
When does panic attack? |
Required
» Chapter 13
» Mennin, D.S., et al. (2005). Preliminary evidence for an emotion regulation deficit model of generalized anxiety disorder.
Optional
» Kring, A. M. (2008). Emotion disturbances as transdiagnostic processes in psychopathology.
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Week 12:
April 13 |
Emotions and well-being
How to cultivate healthy feelings? |
Required
» Chapter 14 (pp. 385-398)
» Baer, R. A. (2003). Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review.
» Pennebaker, J. W. (1993). Putting stress into words: Health, linguistic and therapeutic implications.
Optional
» Diener, E. & Biswas-Diener, R. (2002). Will money increase subjective well-being?
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Week 12:
April 15 |
Depression, mania, and schizophrenia
When is emotion too much? |
Required
» Gruber, J. & Keltner, D. (2007). Emotional behavior and psychopathology: A survey of methods and concepts.
» Gruber, J., et al. (2008). Risk for mania and positive emotional responding: Too much of a good thing?
» Rottenberg, J. (2005). Mood and emotion in major depression.
Optional
» Caspi, A. et al (2003). Influence of life stress on depression: Moderation by a polymorphism in the 5-HTT gene.
» Kring, A. M. & Moran, E. K. (2008). Emotional response deficits in schizophrenia: Insights from affective science.
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Week 13:
April 20 |
Happiness
Don't worry, be happy? |
Required
» Chapter 14 (pp. 406-411)
» Diener, E. & Seligman, M. E. P. (2002). Very happy people.
» Dunn, E. W. (2008). Spending money on others promotes happiness.
Optional
» Fredrickson, B.L. (1998). What good are positive emotions?
» Myers, D.G. (2000). The funds, friends, and faith of happy people.
» Keltner, D. (2009). Survival of the Kindest.
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Week 13:
April 22 |
Exam #3
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Exam #3
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