Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Suppose that, at your 60th high school reunion, you gather the senior portraits and relate your classmates' facial expressions to their mortality rates. Based on the study of 230 Major League Baseball players, what would you expect to find?

Sherrill is really good at affective forecasting. She will probably also score high on the Managing Emotions branch of an emotional intelligence test.

Which of the following statements summarizes the conclusion about affective regulation?

The basic arousal states are ____. ​

Salespeople who force themselves to smile at customers all day may actually end up feeling relatively happy. This effect can be best explained by ____.

Research on gender differences in emotions has found that ____.

Tim drinks an extra large cappuccino just before leaving work and drives home loaded with caffeine. While driving, he gets cut off by another car. Tim becomes extremely angry at the other driver-far angrier than usual. This is because he misinterprets the arousal from the caffeine as anger that he is feeling toward the other driver. That is, he engages in the process of ________________.

Research on happiness and parenthood indicates that couples who have children are ____ than couples who do not have children, although ____.

Research on marriage, parenthood, and happiness suggests that one of the happiest times in people's lives, especially for women, is the ____.

Research shows that there is often a strong association between negative emotions and overeating. However, this association does NOT occur ____.

People high on emotional intelligence are better than others at ________________.

During economic recessions, large corporations often lay off many workers. Those workers who retain their jobs sometimes think, "That's not really fair. I don't necessarily deserve to keep my job when so many other good workers are now unemployed. I shouldn't really still be employed here either...." These people are experiencing ____.

Madge woke up this morning feeling grouchy and annoyed. When her roommate asks her why she is feeling this way, she can't seem to come up with any particular reason. Which term most accurately describes what Madge is feeling?

The facial feedback hypothesis refers to the idea that ____.

An important aspect of the James-Lange theory is that different emotions arise from different bodily responses.

The "not face" is a combination of the facial expressions that people use to show disgust, anger, and contempt.

Suppose Natalie has to go to the hospital to visit her cousin. He has a number of medical problems and has been very depressed for months. Natalie is sort of dreading seeing him. In anticipation of the visit, before leaving the house, Natalie is therefore likely to engage in affect regulation by putting herself in a(n)________________ mood.

When people feel angry, upset, or sad, they are experiencing ____.

How and why would people seek to cultivate anger? Explain with an example.

Research indicates that when men watch films of homosexual men having sex with each other, the men who are the most strongly opposed to homosexuality ____.