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| Emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and, (3) conscious experience |
| Polygraph | a machine, commonly used in attempts to detatch lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion, (such as perspiration, heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing changes) |
| Catharsis | emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges |
| Feel-good, Do-good Phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood |
| Subjective Well-being | Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people's quality of life |
| Relative Deprivation | the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself |
| James-Lange Theory | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | the theory that emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion |
| Two-factory Theory | Schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal |
| Adaption-level Phenomenon | our tendency to form judgements (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a "neutral" level defined by our prior experiences |
