Motivation and emotion/Lectures/Individual emotions

Overview
This lecture discusses 20 specific emotions

Take-home messages:
 * Emotions are purposeful
 * Emotions guide action tendencies towards adaptive functional response
 * Learning about the functions of specific emotions expands our emotional repertoire and makes adaptive emotional responses in different situations more likely

Outline

 * Basic (7)
 * Self-conscious (5)
 * Cognitively complex (8)

Motivations generated by specific emotions
Typical motivational urges generated by specific emotions are shown in Table 1.

Table 1

Motivational Urge Generated by Specific Emotions (based on Reeve (2018, p. 340)) Note. Links go to specific motivation and emotion book chapters. For a table of these emotions with definitions and links to corresponding Wikipedia articles, see the 20 emotions tutorial.

Readings

 * 1) Chapter 14: Individual emotions (Reeve, 2018)

Slides

 * Individual emotions (Google Slides)

Recording

 * Lecture 09 recording(2023)