Exam 6: Emotion and Affect

Compared to negative emotions, there are ____.

Joe's entire neighborhood was hit by a forest fire last year. While nearly all of the houses in the neighborhood were burnt to a crisp, Joe's house was miraculously spared and left fully intact. If Joe was like most people, he would nonetheless feel very badly that he came out of the fire alright while others suffered so much. That is, he would be feeling a form of ____.

According to the ____ hypothesis, people tend to evaluate things as good or bad in part by asking themselves: "How do I feel about it?"

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

Scores on the AIM instrument tell us ____.

Anger tends to lead to rejection and social exclusion of the person at whom you are angry.

How does disgust act as a behavioral immune system?

Research suggests that neutral forms of arousal (e.g., arousal induced by caffeine) can generally be converted-via misattribution-into ____.

Compared to people who are sad or afraid, people who are happy or angry tend to ____.

Sadness is likely to ____.

When asked to predict their emotional reaction to being paralyzed in a car accident, most people know that they would be upset, but tend to overestimate for how long they would be upset. Research suggests that this error may occur because ____.

Research on gender differences in empathy suggests that _____ in accurately understanding the emotional states of others.

Research on gender differences in the experience of love suggests that, compared to women, men ____.

While guilt might say, ____, shame would say, ____.

Martin is a very powerful company president. When he conducts a meeting, if he so much as frowns, the other people in the room behave so as to stop the potential conflict they see coming based on that frown. This reaction to Martin's anger illustrates the_____aspect of anger.

Supposed that Natalie has to go to the hospital today to visit her cousin. He has a number of medical problems and has been in a depressed slump 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.

Which of the following is an example of a low arousal and pleasant emotion?

The concept of emotional intelligence has to do with one's ability ____.

Someone might be a happy person because he enjoys many positive emotional experiences, or because she hardly ever feels bad emotions. What do social psychologists use to measure this level of happiness?

The term ____________________ is used to refer to the frequency of one's positive emotions minus the frequency of one's negative emotions.