Corrected Syllabus Spring 2021 (corrected 4/27/21)


Human Emotions (50:830:306 sec.01)

Professor Ira Roseman   roseman@scarletmail.rutgers.edu  (856) 225-6341
Office hours (on line): Thursdays 12:30-1:30pm and by appointment

Goals of the Course The learning objectives of this course are consistent with the goals of the Rutgers-Camden psychology department.  Course exams are designed to assess these learning objectives.  Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to:

  • Explain what emotions are (What are their components?)
  • Explain when we have emotions (What are their causes?)
  • Explain why we have emotions (What are their functions?)
  • Discuss whether everybody has the same emotions (Are there developmental, individual, gender, and/or cultural differences in emotions?)
  • Discuss major causes of emotional problems, and how they can be overcome (What are the causes of emotional dysfunction, and how can emotions be regulated and controlled?)

Course Grading Policy

GRADING: Your course grade is based on class attendance and participation, and three exams.  Attendance and participation (the number of responses you provide in the chat box in response to the instructor's questions) are recorded by the BigBlueButton program, and will be added up to determine this portion of your grade.

Exams may test: (a) information in required readings, whether or not it is covered in class; and (b) information that is presented in class, whether or not it is in required readings To help you learn about research methods used in the study of emotions, you may be asked to participate in classroom research studies related to the course material during the semester.  However, your participation in such research studies is completely voluntary: your grade will not be affected by your participating or not participating in a classroom research study.

The grading for the course will be:
Attendance and Participation: 10% of course grade
Exam 1:  30% of course grade
Exam 2:  30% of course grade
Final Exam:  30% of course grade

No exam grade will be dropped from inclusion in your course grade.  So please make sure you have kept up with the readings and are adequately prepared for the first exam and all subsequent exams.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
Make sure your work in this course is consistent with the Rutgers Academic Integrity Policy:
http://academicintegrity.rutgers.edu

ABSENCES: You are expected to attend each class remotely from its starting time until its ending time, as specified by the university (https://scheduling.rutgers.edu/remote-instruction).  If you cannot attend a particular class session due to illness or for some other legitimate reason, send an email with the words HUMAN EMOTIONS ATTENDANCE in the subject line, and your name, the date of the class you are missing, and an explanation for why you can't attend remotely on that date.  If you are going to miss an exam, you must let me know in advance by calling me at (856) 225-6341, or by sending e-mail to roseman@scarletmail.rutgers.edu
If something happens at the last minute, you still need to let me know before the start of the exam. 5% will be deducted from your exam grade if you miss an exam without letting me know in advance. Essay makeup exams will be given in cases of legitimate absences.  All makeup exams in this course are essay tests.

Obtaining Course Readings:

Robeson library is making readings for this course available electronically.  As of January 19, 2021, you should be able to view and print at least the first few readings by clicking on Reserve List on the left hand side of the course Sakai site.  Alternatively, you can go to the Rutgers Libraries home page https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/  click on the word Find (in the left side of the red banner), click on Course Reserves (at the bottom of the Library Collections column at the left), and then type HUMAN EMOTIONS (the course title) and then SEARCH.  When the course name appears, you can click on it and you will find the readings listed for the first few weeks of the semester.  Readings for later in the semester should appear soon.  You must have Adobe Reader on the computer you are using, in order to download, read, and print the files.  You can download Adobe Reader for free at 
https://get.adobe.com/reader/

Detailed instructions for finding, viewing, and printing electronic reserve documents are given in "Electronic Documents on Reserve, A User's Guide" at https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/reserve_services

If you are trying to view, download, or print reserve documents from home or another off-campus location, you must first have configured the computer to gain access to Rutgers library resources.  Instructions for doing so can be found at https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/how_do_i/connect_from_off-campus .
If you have difficulty getting electronic access to reserve materials you can ask a librarian via e-mail from the libraries web page, or by phone (856-225-6034) or in person at Robeson library.

Some readings may also be found by clicking on Resources on the left side of the course Sakai site.

Disability Services:

Rutgers University welcomes students with disabilities into all of the University's educational programs. In order to receive consideration for reasonable accommodations, a student with a disability must contact the appropriate disability services office at the campus where you are officially enrolled, participate in an intake interview, and provide documentation:

https://ods.rutgers.edu/students/documentation-guidelines. If the documentation supports your request for reasonable accommodations, your campus’s disability services office will provide you with a Letter of Accommodations. Please share this letter with your instructors and discuss the accommodations with them as early in your courses as possible. To begin this process, please complete the Registration form at https://webapps.rutgers.edu/student-ods/forms/registration.

And the link:

https://success.camden.rutgers.edu/disability-services


Tentative Syllabus (readings may be added or changed during the semester)

READINGS: *R  = required reading
    (B) = background reading, not required

You are not required to do background readings, and you will not be tested on them. Background readings are listed to provide an extra source of information, for students who are interested in learning more about particular topics. Both required and background readings will be on reserve at Robeson Library. Note that readings may be added or changed during the semester.  
 

Jan. 19 - 21    Introduction; The phenomenological component of emotions.

*R    Keltner, D., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). Understanding emotions (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (read Chapter 1: Approaches to understanding emotions). 

(B)    Damasio, A. (1994). Descartes' error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York: Harcourt Brace. (Chapter 7: Emotions and feelings)

(B)     Miller, S. (1985). The shame experience. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (pp. 28-70).
 

Jan. 26 - 28    The physiological component of emotions

(B)    LeDoux, J. E. (1996). The emotional brain: The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life. New York: Simon & Schuster (Chapter 4: The Holy Grail; Chapter 6: A few degrees of separation)

*R    Keltner, D., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). Understanding emotions (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (read Chapter 5: Bodily changes and emotions).

(B)    Carlson, N. R., & Birkett, M. A. (2017). Physiology of behavior (12th ed.) Boston: Pearson. (Chapter 3 from "The Forebrain" to the end of the chapter; & Chapter 11: Emotion

Feb. 2 - 4      The expressive component

(B)    Darwin, C. R. (1969). The expression of the emotions in man and animals. New York: Greenwood. (original work published 1872) (pp. 27-65, 347-366).

(B)    Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1975). Unmasking the face. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.  (pp. 21-65).

*R    Keltner, D., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). Understanding emotions (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (read Chapter 4: Communication of emotions).


Feb. 9 - 11   The behavioral component

*R    Frijda, N. H. (1986). The emotions. New York: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 69-90)

 (B)    Blanchard, D. C., Hynd, A. L., Minke, K. A., and Blanchard, R. J. (2001). Human defensive behaviors to threat scenarios show parallels to fear- and anxiety-related defense patterns of nonhuman mammals. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 25, 761-770.

 (B)    Potegal, M. (2010). The temporal dynamics of anger: Phenomena, processes, and perplexities. In M. Potegal, G. Stemmler, & C. Spielberger (Eds.), International handbook of anger (pp. 385-401). New York: Springer..


Feb. 16   The motivational component

(B)    Tomkins, S. S. (1970). Affect as the primary motivational system. In M. B. Arnold (Ed.), Feelings and. emotions: The Loyola Symposium (pp. 101-110). New York: Academic Press

 (B)    Izard, C. E. (1991). The psychology of emotions. New York: Plenum (pp. 89-130).

*R    Roseman, I. J., Wiest, C., & Swartz, T. S. (1994). Phenomenology, behaviors, and goals differentiate discrete emotions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 206-221.

Feb. 18   Exam 1 on readings and lectures from Jan. 19  to Feb. 16
 

Feb. 23        The situations in which emotions occur

(B)    Aristotle (1966). Rhetoric. In Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics (W. R. Roberts, Trans.). New York: Modern Library. (pp. 90-121). (Original work written c. 350 B.C.)

*R    Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & McCauley, C. (2016). Disgust. In L. F. Barrett, M. Lewis, & J. M. Haviland-Jones  (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (4th ed., pp. 815-834).  New York: Guilford Press.
 
(B)    Keltner, D., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). Understanding emotions (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (Chapter 2: Evolution of emotions).

Feb.  25 - Mar. 2   Appraisal determinants of emotion: Motivation + cognition

*R    Cornelius, R. R. (1996). The science of emotion: Research and tradition in the psychology of emotion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (read pp. 112-148: Feeling is thinking: The cognitive perspective)

(B)    Roseman, I. J., & Smith, C. A. (2001). Appraisal theory: Overview, assumptions, varieties, controversies. In K. R. Scherer, A. Schorr, & T. Johnstone (Eds.), Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, methods, research (pp. 3-19). New York: Oxford University Press.

 (B)    Frijda, N. F. (2007). The laws of emotion. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (chapter 4: Appraisal, pp. 93-121)

Mar. 4 - 9    The effects of emotions 

 (B)    Clark, M. S., & Isen, A. M. (1982). Toward understanding the relationship between feeling states and social behavior. In A. Hastorf & A. M. Isen (eds.) Cognitive social psychology. New York: Elsevier North Holland.

 *R    Salovey, P., Detweiler, J. B., Steward, W. T., & Bedell, B. T. (2001). Affect and health-relevant cognition. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.) Handbook of affect and social cognition (pp. 344-368). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

(B)        Lerner, J. S., Gonzalez, R. M., Small, D. A., & Fischhoff, B. (2003). Effects of fear and anger on perceived risks of terrorism: A national field experiment. Psychological Science, 14, 144-150.  


Mar. 11  
The functions of emotions, Part 1

*R    Ekman, P., & Davidson, R. (Eds.). (1994). The nature of emotion: Fundamental questions. New York: Oxford University Press. (read pp. 99-139)

(B)    Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (1999). Social functions of emotions at four levels of analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 505-522.

(B)      Fredrickson, B. L. (2005).The broaden and build theory of positive emotions. In
F. A. Huppert, N. Baylis, & B. Keverne (Eds.) The science of well-being (pp. 217-238). New York: Oxford University Press.. 


Mar. 16 - 18      Spring Break: No class


Mar. 23   The functions of emotions, Part 2

(B)    Keltner, D., & Haidt, J. (1999). Social functions of emotions at four levels of analysis. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 505-522.

(B)      Fredrickson, B. L. (2005).The broaden and build theory of positive emotions. In
F. A. Huppert, N. Baylis, & B. Keverne (Eds.) The science of well-being (pp. 217-238). New York: Oxford University Press. 


Mar.  25 - 30 
The structure of emotions

*R    Plutchik, R. (1984). Emotions: A general psychoevolutionary theory. In K. R. Scherer and P. Ekman (Eds.) Approaches to emotion (pp. 197-219). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 (B)    Russell, J. A. (2003). Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion. Psychological Review, 110, 145-172.

 (B)    Roseman, I. J. (2011). Emotional behaviors, emotivational goals, emotion strategies: Multiple levels of organization integrate variable and consistent responses. Emotion Review, 3, 434-443.
 

Apr. 1    Exam 2 on readings and lectures from Feb. 23 - Mar. 30
 

Apr. 6 - 8    Emotional development

 (B)    Kagan, J. (2003). Behavioral inhibition as a temperamental category. In R. J. Davidson &. K. R. Scherer & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences (pp. 8-24). New York: Oxford University Press. 

 (B)    Fernyhough, C. (2008) A thousand days of wonder. New York: Penguin. (Chapter 3: Blooming, buzzing: First impressions of the newborn.)

 *R    Keltner, D., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). Understanding emotions (4thed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (read chapter 8: Development of emotions in childhood)

 

Apr. 13 - 15   Individual, gender, and cultural differences

*R    Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2003). The attachment behavioral system in adulthood - Activation, psychodynamics, and interpersonal processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology35, 56-152. (read pp. 56 - 88)

 (B)    Brody, L. R., Hall, J. A., & Stokes, L. R. (2016). Gender and emotion: Theory, findings, and context. In L. F. Barrett, M. Lewis, & J. M. Haviland-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of emotions (4th ed., pp. 369-392).  New York: Guilford Press.

 (B)    Shiota, M. N., & Kalat, J. W. (2018). Emotion (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford. (Chapter 3: Culture and emotion)
 

Apr. 20 - 22    Emotional dysfunction

 (B)    Beck, A. T. (1976). Cognitive therapy and the emotional disorders. New York: International Univ. Press. (pp. 76-101)

 *R    Keltner, D., Oatley, K., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). Understanding emotions (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. (chapter 13: Emotional disorders in adulthood).

 (B)    Jamison, K. R. (1995). An unquiet mind. New York: Knopf. (pp. 9 - 40: The wild blue yonder)

Apr. 27 - 29      The regulation and control of emotions

 *R    Carlson, J. G., & Hatfield, E. (1992). Psychology of emotion. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. (Chapter 14, "Dealing with Emotions" pp. 517-564)

 (B)    Grewal, D., & Salovey, P. (2005). Feeling smart: The science of emotional intelligence. American Scientist, 93, 330-339.

 (B)    Gross, J. J., Richards, J. M., & John, O. P. (2006). Emotion regulation in everyday life. In D. K. Snyder, J. A. Simpson, & J. N. Hughes (Eds.). Emotion regulation in couples and families: Pathways to dysfunction and health (pp. 13-35). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. 
 

May  11 (Tuesday,  11:30am - 2:20pm) Exam 3 on readings and lectures from Apr. 1 - end of term.  (NOTE: You must start the exam at 11:30am in order to take the multiple choice test; this is the correct starting time)