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Education Standards
Affective Neuroscience – NOBA
Atlas of Emotions
Culture and Emotion – NOBA
Emotion Experiences and Well-Being – NOBA
Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
Knowledge Emotions: Feelings that Foster Learning, Exploring, and Reflecting – NOBA
Lie Detection: Misconceptions, Pitfalls, and Opportunities for Improvement
Openstax Chapter on Motivation and Emotions
Paul Ekman Website
Personality Pedagogy – Emotions
Promoting Psychological Science
Reading Facial Expressions of Emotion
Test On Recognizing Facial Expressions
The Definitive Guide to Reading Microexpressions
The Function of Emotions – NOBA
The Sweet Spot for Achievement
The University of Minnesota Library Publishers Psychology Book
Video – Can You Spot a Fake Smile?
Video – Emotions, Stress and Health (Crash Course Psychology)
Video – Feeling all the Feels (Crash Course Psychology)
Video – What is Love? (Ted Ed)
Emotion - Course Map and Recommended Resources
Overview
How to Use this Guide
This guide provides information and resources on introducing the topic of emotions. All resources are Open Access and can be downloaded or added to a Course Management System (LMS) via the hyperlinks.
Introduction
The chapter on emotion is usually presented with motivation, but for this OER project, it is presented as a separate concept. Most of the chapters in the recommended resources cover much more information then should be presented in an introduction class, so faculty may want to choose what pieces work best. The most comprehensive covering of this topic come from the various chapters in the NOBA project, but to assign all of these to students might be information overload. Faculty will need to pick and choose what sections work best for their approach. Remember that Emotion falls within Pillar 4: Social and Personality, which also includes Social, Personality, Emotion, Multicultural, Gender, and Motivation. Social and Personality are both required topics under the Ohio TAG, so instructors should only plan to add Emotion if time permits.
Learning Objectives
Describe the different theories of emotion
Explain the elements of emotion
Discuss nonverbal (such as facial differences) displays of emotion
Talk about the psychology of lies and how deception can be covered in this section
Cross Cutting Themes
Diversity
Discuss the evidence regarding gender differences in reading emotions
Give examples of how different cultures experience and understand emotions
Discuss "universal" emotions and cultural variations
Ethics
Provide examples of how emotion research can help law enforcement officers detect lies
Discuss the ethics of the research to help law enforcement
Discuss if it is appropriate to prescribe drugs to people who are perceived to be too emotional
Variations in Human Functioning
Discuss the value of negative emotions like sadness and anger
Discuss characteristics that might predispose an individual to road rage and the ways in which these individuals could more appropriately manage their emotions
Application
Provide examples of how emotion research can help law enforcement officers detect lies
Discuss how a polygraph works and why it could not be used in court cases
Discuss appropriate situations where different emotions could be used
Recommended Resources
With the NOBA resources (first four items), faculty may want to cut and paste parts of all four chapters to cover emotions.
The Function of Emotions – NOBA
NOBA project Chapter on the Function of Emotions by Hyisung Hwang and David Matsumoto
Emotion Experiences and Well-Being – NOBA
NOBA project Chapter on Emotion Experiences and Well-Being by Brett Ford and Iris Mauss
Culture and Emotion – NOBA
NOBA project Chapter on Culture and Emotions by Jeanne Tsai
Knowledge Emotions: Feelings that Foster Learning, Exploring, and Reflecting – NOBA
NOBA project Chapter on Knowledge Emotions: Feelings that Foster Learning, Exploring, and Reflecting by Paul Silvia
The University of Minnesota Library Publishers Psychology Book
This is the chapter on emotions and motivation. Faculty may want to just cover the emotion section for that chapter.
Openstax Chapter on Motivation and Emotions
This is the section that covers aspects of emotions.
Supplemental Resources
The Sweet Spot for Achievement
An article that discusses an application of the theories of emotion to enhancing sport performance.
8 Myths About Lying
Paul Ekman Website
Paul Ekman is one of the experts on the psychology of lying. These are two sites you can use to learn more about the subject.
Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
Paul Bloom’s Open Yale University class on Introduction to Psychology. This is the Part One of the lecture on emotions.
Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
Paul Bloom’s Open Yale University class on Introduction to Psychology. This is the Part Two of the lecture on emotions.
Affective Neuroscience – NOBA
NOBA chapter by Eddie Harmon-Jones and Cindy Harmon-Jones on Affective Neuroscience that talks about the biology of emotions
The Definitive Guide to Reading Microexpressions
An article on the science of how to read the variety of microexpressions that people display.
Test On Recognizing Facial Expressions
This online test asks you to select the emotion portrayed in the facial expression.
Atlas of Emotions
This interactive tool builds your vocabulary of emotions. It represents what researchers have learned from the psychological study of emotion.
Reading Facial Expressions of Emotion
This is an APA article by David Matsumoto and Hyi Sung Hwang on the research on training programs that improve people's ability to detect emotions.
Emotions, Stress and Health (Video)
Crash Course video on emotions, stress and health.
Feeling all the Feels (Video)
Crash Course video on our emotions.
Class Activities
Can You Spot a Fake Smile? (Video)
A video on how to spot a fake smile. This is good to discuss the nonverbal aspects of emotions.
Discussion
Have students list out five emotions and discuss 1) a situation that brings the emotion on, 2) the physiological change as a result of the emotion, 3) the cognitive changes as a result of the emotion, and 4) how a person’s behavior is changed, because of the emotion. Faculty can list out the five emotions picked by the students to see if they choose more positive, negative or neutral emotions.
Truths and Lies
At the beginning of class, have students prepare a list of 10 items about themselves: 5 should be true and 5 should be lies. Suggested items include: Number of siblings, name of pets, jobs they have held, vacations locations they have visited, hobbies, and sports they have played. Have students share these items with someone sitting next to them and have the other student guess what items are lies and what are real. This activity can be supplemented with this article: Lie Detection: Misconceptions, Pitfalls, and Opportunities for Improvement
Personality Pedagogy – Emotions
This is a webpage with links to articles, activities, and multimedia
What is Love? (Video)
This is a Ted-Ed video that covers the emotion of love, including biology, perceptions, experiences, and culture. There are discussion and assessment questions at the end of the video (free registration is required to access the questions). Closed captioning available.
Promoting Psychological Science
A Compendium of laboratory exercises for teachers of high school psychology published by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the chapter on Motivation & Emotion by Deborah Brihl & Michalene Grebski