Hedonomics Class Topics & Assignments Log
Fall 2018

Tuesday, August 21
First class meeting. (Highly) preliminary syllabus distributed.  Described "proposed" class organization and requirements (see syllabus updates)
Assignment: Read Hancock, et al (2005) for Thursday (8/23).

Thursday, August 23
Review/discussion of Hancock et al's Hedonomics paper.
Assignment: Read Reeve (2015) Chap 13 (refs) for next Tuesday; Read Plutchik (2001) fig and Fredrickson (2003) for next Thursday.

Tuesday, August 28
Theories of emotion: from Ekman's Basic Emotions to Lazarus' Appraisal approach.

Thursday, August 30
Plutchik's psychoevolutionary model; five components of emotion [feeling; action tendency; appraisal; motor activity; physiological arousal]; negative feedback mechanism does not apply to positive emotions (at least not directly); color-wheel/color mixing analogy; Plutchik's proposal that planned action responses to emotional stimuli may be more diagnostic and reliable than self-reports of feelings; Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build function of positive emotions; "Undoing hypothesis" for role of positive emotions (i.e., hastens the dissapation of ANS-patterned response to negative emotions).
Assignment: prepare assigned reading presentations for next two weeks; everyone reads Ekman & Cordaro (2011).

In-Class Presentation Assignments

Date	Paper	Presenter
9/4	Brave & Nass	Logan
9/4	Kahneman	Denis
9/6	Larsen & Fredrickson	Marc
9/6	Schwarz & Strack	Elizabeth
9/11	Rozin	Ty
9/11	Kubovy	Seth
9/13	Berridge	Preston