Английский язык. Горчакова Е.П - 5 стр.

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emotional intensity, tension and hedonic tone may be generally
lower than in the younger years.

      Since emotional expression is an important form if
communication, recognizing emotion in others is essential for
social living. In judging another’s emotions, one might use
various cues: the person’s stated feelings, behavior, facial
expressions, gestures, voice, posture, and so forth, or certain
physiological changes. These four indexes do not always agree,
however, nor are people consistent in the way they express
their emotions from time to time. Most research indicates that
joy and pain are easiest to judge from expressive cues, fear
and sadness more difficult while pity and suspicion are more
difficult still.
 4   Children tend to interpret expressive cues differently from
adults. The most accurate judgments are made when people
observe others from their own culture, but some ways of
expressing emotion seem to be universal and instinctive (as
suggested by Darwin). Nevertheless, learning plays a
significant role, and it may be that its major contribution lies
in our learning to hide our feelings or to express them in ways
expected and approved by society, rather than in the ways
favored by our biological past.

    Bodily responses, taken singly, are unreliable indictors of
emotion, but than together they are more useful. Certain
primary emotions can be, to an appreciable degree, detected
and differential through examining patterns of bodily or
physiological responses.

     Theories of emotion are better seen as generalized points
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of view rather than as comprehensive analyses of emotional
phenomena. The current theories can be roughly divided in two
groups – those that see very little function in emotions, and
those that give emotions an important part to play in behavior.

     The first view, which regards the emotional experience as
incidental, considers it but a byproduct of certain
physiological disturbance. These theorists maintain that
emotion can only interfere with, or disrupt, the normal factors
(drives, motives, habits, rational thought, and so on) which
influence and direst behavior. Other theorists of pretty much