Psychology of Emotions - Online Course - Adult Learning

About this course

When you feel happy, sad, anxious or surprised, what’s happening? What are emotions? Why do we have them? How might emotions be mastered? How are emotions displayed? Are emotions and their expressions universal? These are just some of the questions this short course will attempt to answer as some of the psychological theories of emotion are introduced. 

This course will focus on emotions and explore if they are universally pre-programmed in our brain and bodies, or if they are constructed? 

We will look at the difference between thoughts and feelings and discuss how emotions are experienced consciously and unconsciously, and how each person experiences emotion differently. We will also touch on how people may be able to change or reappraise how they experience emotion.   

Informed by different branches of psychology, including neuroscience, you will be able to define what emotion is, understand the difference between logic and emotion, appreciate how emotion influences attention, and look at individual and cultural differences when it comes to how we experience emotion.   

You will be able to discuss different theories of emotion, understand the facial feedback hypothesis, and define “mere exposure effect”. 

By the end of the course, you will: 

• Have your own considered definition of what emotions are. 
• Display knowledge of different theories of emotion. 
  
• Be aware of the arguments around the universality of emotional expression. 
  
• Appreciate cultural differences regarding emotion. 
  
• Understand the facial feedback hypothesis. 
  
• Explain the “mere exposure effect”. 
  
• Understand Rational Emotive Behaviour Theory. 
  

Suggested Reading for the course: 

• How Emotions are Made by Lise Feldman-Barrett 
• Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

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• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING, AND
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

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To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).  As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
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