A(ffect & Emotion)
S(ocial)
P(sychophysiology)
Lab Lore
100
Affect is often described in terms of these two dimensions--one referring to feelings of activation/deactivation and the other referring to feelings of pleasantness/unpleasantness.
What are arousal and valence?
100
This socially-relevant emotion is critical in helping behavior in humans, but evidence of it has also been observed in other species like this chimpanzee putting his arm around another chimp who just lost a fight.
What is empathy?
100
Shock researcher Walter Cannon coined this word for an organism's ability to maintain internal equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
100
The stuffed creature of this species lives on the lab table and is always either happy or angry.
What is an axolotl?
200
People who are high in this construct are better able to precisely identify and differentiate between various specific emotions. If you tend to label your emotions using words far out on the emotion wheel, you might be one of them!
What is emotional granularity?
200
Microgravity environments in space create changes in fluid distribution in astronauts' faces, altering their facial expressions, and disrupting this social-emotional process.
What is emotion perception?
200
The autonomic nervous system consists of these two branches responsible for "fight-or-flight" and "rest-and-digest" responses.
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system?
200
This deeply unlikeable piece of equipment uses Bluetooth to administer the Heartbeat Detection Task without all the inconvenient wires.
What is the Shimmer?
300
The process of predicting one's emotional state in the future. You're doing this when you think about how good you'll feel once finals are over!
What is affective forecasting?
300
Though discussed by various scholars in the 20th century under a different name, the term for this phenomenon that occurs when someone’s emotions and related behaviors lead to similar emotions and behaviors in others was officially coined in 1985.
What is emotional contagion?
300
Interoceptive awareness' subjective counterpart
What is body awareness?
300
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Free space
400
This condition, also referred to as emotional blindness, is characterized by significant difficulties identifying and expressing or describing one's feelings.
What is alexithymia?
400
This phenomenon can help explain why feelings of fear caused by going on a rollercoaster with a friend might be mistaken for romantic feelings toward them.
What is the misattribution of arousal?
400
This three-letter complex is what most people think of when they picture a heartbeat. 
What is the QRS complex?
400
The dreaded ALT task requires the participant (victim?) to sit through this many trials--some while aversive sounds are playing.
What is 900?
500
This hypothesis has received a mix of support and opposition for its claim that one's facial expression can directly impact their emotional experience. For example, one task had participants put a pencil between their teeth to mimic a smile in an attempt to increase happiness.
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
500
This hypothesis states that people express aggression when they are prevented from accomplishing a goal. Like when researchers found that baseball pitchers were more likely to hit a batter with a ball if they had recently been frustrated by a homerun.
What is the frustration-aggression hypothesis?
500
This psychophysiological measure assesses the variations in time intervals between heartbeats and is often used as an indicator of emotional regulation.
What is Heart Rate Variability?
500
The name of the little dude on a post-it on the whiteboard
Kyle