Re: [xmca] Inappropriate affect

[ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org]

Jay:

I am not stating that culture does not mediate individual emotional 
responses.  My point is that humans have inate drives that include 
emotions.  Hunger is not mediated by culture.  How one satiates that 
hunger can be culturally mediated.  How one responds to emotions can be 
mediated by culture but I do not believe it to be a priori that all 
emotional responses are culturally mediated.

make sense?
eric




Jay Lemke <jaylemke@umich.edu>
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12/09/2009 08:06 PM
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Eric,

So how do we know that "culture does not mediate these individual 
responses"? That seem pretty unlikely to me.

JAY.


Jay Lemke
Professor (Adjunct, 2009-2010)
Educational Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
www.umich.edu/~jaylemke

Visiting Scholar
Laboratory for Comparative Human Communication
University of California -- San Diego
La Jolla, CA
USA 92093






On Dec 8, 2009, at 4:33 AM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:

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> Inappropriate affect is a clinical psychiatric term that refers to an
> individual's response to emotion; examples are laughing at hearing 
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> the death of a loved one, crying that someone ate the last piece of 
> pie, or
> outrageous anger that a favorite TV show has been postponed because 
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> weather report.  Culture does NOT mediate these individual responses.
> People exhibit internal drives.  What is discussed when exploring the
> meaning of emotions is aesthetics and not the actual emotions. 
> Animals are
> not happy, they are content.  Humans experience true joy that is not
> mediated by culture and it is what separates us from the animals.
> Archeological evidence is revealing that Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals
> existed at the same time; one succeeded due to a development of a 
> culture.
> I dare say that culture developed as a result of shared emotional
> experiences found beyond what other animals experience.  Humans are
> extremely vulnerable and within this vulnerability they have found 
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> greatest strength!
> eric
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>> Andy; you and I have discussed much of CHAT and have come to 
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