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1 THEME 1: BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF EMOTION, STREES AND AGRESSION ESTUDIAR ACTIVIDADES!!! 1. Emotion 2. Stress 3. Aggressive behavior Goal: Identify and describe the biopsychological mechanisms of emotions, stress and aggression. EMOTION ❖ Activity 1 Look it at the memorandum: Universality of facial expression: Several studies have found that people of different cultures make similar facial expressions in similar situations and that they can correctly identify the emotional significance of facial expressions displayed by people from cultures other than their own. ❖ Ekman’s primary emotions Ekman’s six primary emotions are: Anger, Disgust (connected to the insula), Fear, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise. Further concluded that all other facial expressions of genuine emotion are composed of mixture of these six primaries. *The emotion is not a behavior, it’s before the behavior; it’s internal and it could be exteriorized or not. *The stronger the emotion the more difficult it’s to hide or conceal it *We are quite good at controlling most of our muscles *Micro expressions: are the ones we don’t really control. It’s something very short lasting and we usually cannot see it at naked eyes. *The o...