The book focuses on four perspectives on emotion: Orgasmic view of emotion, Perceptual view of emotions, Cognitive view of emotions, and Interactive view of emotions. Orgasmic view of emotion is when an event occurs first we respond physiologically and then after we react then we get to experience the emotion. For example when go on a roller coaster and we get the butterflies in are stomach because we are either scared or excited. This is orgasmic view because we had a stimulus, Physiological response, and then are emotion. Perceptual view is how we view a certain scenario. People don’t all see emotions the same way some could view frowning as when someone is sad, but others might think it’s a sign of anger. It’s how interpret the emotion. Cognitive labeling view of emotion is like perceptual view but it clears up how we identify the situation by how we interpret are feeling. In cognitive view we have the event, are physiological response to it, then we choose how we respond and then we have are emotion. Interactive view of emotion is split in three parts“: framing rules, feeling rules, and emotion work”(Wood. 176). Framing rules is when cultures define the different emotional situations. Not all the cultures are the same on how they act towards situations. Feeling rules is how we are suppose to react or when we feel like we have a right to respond a certain way. Emotion work is when we show emotions that we think are appropriate for the time. So interactive view is how different social groups react and how interpret things. The one that makes the most since to me is Orgasmic view because we have all gone through this at one time in are life at least. Also interactive view made since to because we all react to things different depending on how we were raised to react.
I really like this post because it really shows how we often take points of view on emotion that get misinterpreted by others and causes upsets to occur within friendships and relationships. We are so often use to interpreting others emotions by the same standards of which we express our emotions. This causes a lot of miscommunication because we are not truly understanding of what other people are feeling unless they express what they are feeling openly. Interpreting ones emotions and judging their behavior based on mere assumption is very risky.
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