Motivation and Emotion (Fall 2018)

Brief Overview As humans, we are privileged to be able to experience emotions in response to events or phenomenas. We smile to express happiness, furrow our brows and frown to display dissatisfaction. Emotions are multidimensional. They generate feelings, induce physiological reactions, generate motivational states and facial expressions.  Paul Eckman came up with six basic emotions (fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise, and happiness) that follow a certain criteria: →innate rather than acquired or learned through experience or socialization →arise from the same circumstances for all people →are expressed uniquely and distinctively (universal facial expression) →evoke a distinctive and highly predictable physiological patterned response Show and Tell Loving Vincent is the first of its kind to produce an animation film entirely out of oil-paintings. Fresh brushstrokes and expressive details bring extraordinary life to the story and characters. The intricate na