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EMOTIONS
Certain experiences activate the thalamus, and the thalamus sends messages to the cortex and to body organs.
Carles Darwin argued that all people express certain basic feelings in the same ways.Without knowing a person's language, you can tell whether he or she is amused or infuriated just by looking at a person's face.
Caroll Izard and his colleagues developed a coding system for assessing emotional states.
James-Lange Theory: Both men believed that emotions are the perception of certain internal bodily changes.
Schachter-Singer Experiment: Demonstrated that internal components of emotion affect a person differently, depending on his or her interpretation or perception of the social situation.
Oponent-Process Theory: Solomon and Corbit proposed that any intense emotion will, with repeated exposure, bring about an internal counterforce of similar magnitude.
Men are better liars than women because it is easier for women to express their feelings more freely. An emotion that one does not feel may come easily for many males.
Polygraghs were once used as lie detectors but they were proved to be unreliable so in 1988 Congress voted to prohibit continued use of lie detectors in most employee hiring practices. An alternative was the guilty-knowledge test.
