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Most people talk about emotions as if they are all the same kind of thing: uncontrollable internally-based impulses. But as you’re learning in this class, it’s more complicated than that. You can separate emotions analytically into three different categories: basic emotions, culturally specific emotions, and higher cognitive emotions. These categories often do overlap a bit, but are very useful, as they show us that different emotions have different origins; they come from different places. Some emotions are truly biologically based, some are taught to us entirely by our cultures, and some are a thought-driven hybrid.
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This unit’s discussion has 4 parts:

1. Name and describe the three different kinds of emotions(I already did it above; now you do it in greater detail). Use Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence to inform your descriptions.

2. Describe the Cultural Theory of Emotions, and why it is only partially correct.It is NOT the same thing as a culturally specific emotions; look to lecture to remind you of exactly what the Cultural Theory of Emotions says).

3. Choose an emotion that you believe is culturally specific or higher cognitive, and explain how you learned that emotion.Your post will be extra-special if you can explain ways in which different cultural understandings would lead you to experience that emotion differently, and act differently because of it.

cultural-construction-of-emotionslutz-unnatural-emotions-3-13-phkkosyf.pdf jealousy-in-american-culture-v2d1304i.pdf

Ishfaq Ahmad · Accepted Answer

Basic Emotions, Higher Cognitive Emotions and Culturally Specific Emotions
According to the Book of Rites, which was composed in the first century, there are seven "basic" feelings that people experience. These include things like liking, loving, fearing, being angry, being sad, and feeling fury. While as there are ideas that assert emotions are universal, notwithstanding their cultural influence. Even if emotions are universal, the way they are experienced, the behaviors they inspire, and how others around them interpret them vary dramatically throughout cultures. The components of emotions are universal, yet cultural influences change their patterns. Several theories suggest that emotions may also influence culture.
People's emotions may be likened to those of animals since our spectrum of higher cognitive emotions is restricted. Beautiful emotions, cognitive dissonances, and musical sensations are all aesthetic emotions unique to humans. They have a relationship with the need for "high" cognitive knowledge. 
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence Theory was published by Goleman in 1995.

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