PSY369: Complete the following day reconstruction and emotion reflection task on three days within a week: Emotion, Tutor-Marked Assignment, SUSS

Part 1: 

Complete the following day reconstruction and emotion reflection task on three days within a week. The three days do not need to be consecutive but should fall within a 7-day period. On each day, write a 50~100-word reflection of what happened that day, focusing in particular on any events that stood out as being particularly memorable or emotional that day.

In the next section, count the number of ‘positive’ (e.g., ‘good’, ‘fun’, ‘happy’, ‘great’, ‘amazing’, etc.) words you used in your write-up as well as the number of ‘negative’ (e.g., ‘bad’, ‘stressed’, ‘sad’, ‘horrible’, ‘disastrous’, etc.) words you used in your write-up. Include in your count any words that carry positive or negative evaluative meanings even if they are not emotion words (e.g., in the phrase ‘I watched a great movie today’, ‘great’ would count as 1 positive word).

1) How much you smiled that day
2) How much you frowned that day
3) How much you felt a desire to feel close to others that day

Part 2

Question 1

Taylor Swift has decided to make a career transition into being a researcher. In line with the many songs she has written about relationships, she is now interested in studying how positive and negative emotions elicit the desire to affiliate or feel close with others, and decided to use the above three-day day-reconstruction and emotion reflection task. To test this, she tested four bivariate correlations, and her findings are as follows:

1. The number of positive emotion words had a significant positive relationship with the desire to feel close to others.

2. The number of negative emotion words had no significant relationship with the desire to feel close to others.

3. How much a person smiled each day had a significant positive relationship with the desire to feel close to others.

4. How much a person frowned each day had a significant negative relationship with the desire to feel close to others.

She concluded that positive emotions elicit a stronger desire to feel close to others, while there was no consistent evidence for negative emotions.

Analyse the extent to which (1) counting the number of positive and negative words in one’s reflection and (2) rating one’s frequency of smiling and frowning provides accurate indications of how much a person may actually experience positive and/or negative emotions each day. Provide concrete examples from your own experiences to support your response.

Additionally, critique whether the three-day day-reconstruction and emotion reflection task would provide a good method for testing Taylor Swift’s research question and suggest how this might influence her conclusions. Provide suggestions on how you might improve on the design to provide a methodologically and/or theoretically stronger test of the relationship between positive emotions and negative emotions with the desire to affiliate or feel close to others. Provide evidence for your suggestions.

Question 2

Appraise whether your experiences of positive and negative emotions align with the idea that emotions serve social functions. Support your arguments with relevant evidence and concrete examples from your own experiences—if necessary, you may include examples from outside of the three days to support your answer.

Demonstrate your knowledge of how appraisal theory and psychological constructionism would explain why you felt positive and negative emotions, and why positive and negative emotions could influence the desire to feel close to others. Critique whether each of these theories may provide incomplete explanations. Support your arguments with empirical evidence and provide concrete examples from your own experiences.

References

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There will be no awarding of 1, 2, or 3 marks.

5 marks: Perfect use of APA style. Demonstrates a thorough understanding of APA format and referencing conventions. A minimum of 5 academic references are cited.

4 marks: Near perfect use of APA style. Demonstrates a very good understanding of APA format and referencing conventions. A minimum of 5 academic references are cited.

English competency (5 marks)
5 marks: Extremely well-written with minimal grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors.
4 marks: Well-written, but may contain a number of grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors.
3 marks: Fairly written, but with a number of grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors.
2 marks: Poorly written with many grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors.
0-1 mark: Badly written with serious grammatical/spelling/punctuation errors.

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