It is unbelievable and almost unimaginable living our lives without ever having a feeling. As human beings we are forced to reckon with the feelings and emotions of ourselves and often at times the feelings and emotions of others around us. We all know what it is like to feel and to have emotions. They are the everyday things we do such as love our family and hate our enemy, have anger towards the one who made us mad and fearful of the person who makes us scared, have pride over our work ethics and jealousy of another’s knowledge and skills. Feelings and emotions drive us to certain states of mind that sometimes are controllable and sometimes are not. To live our lives is to experience all sorts of feelings of pleasure and displeasure, happiness and sadness, or anger and contentment. Leonard Berkowitz explains in his book Causes and Consequences of feelings that our thoughts, judgments, memories and interactions with others can be directly affected as a result of experiencing pleasure of displeasure. “Emotions, moods, and even our physical sensations can distort our judgments, alter what ideas occur to us, alter what we remember, and affect our behavior to those around us” (Berkowitz). More importantly, having emotions and feelings can generate error, lead to false recollections and mistaken judgments or decision. This may be because emotions are motivational, they act as motives and are related to our level of arousal. An emotion is a conscious experience involving
In order to direct one’s thinking they need negative emotions. The article “Happiness: Enough Already” declares that, “Studies show that when you are in a negative mood,” says Diener, “you become more analytical, more critical and more innovative” (Begley 456). Which proves that the happier one is the more absent minded they are; whereas when one is negative one is more likely to think before doing. According to “Don’t Worry, Be Gloomy” it states, “When we’re overly cheerful, we tend to neglect important threats and dangers” (David 124). There is something called being “too happy” meaning one experiences extreme levels of happiness and when one has these extreme levels that person tends to take riskier actions that would harm themselves or others. As the article continues it states, “Our so-called negative emotions encourage slower, more systematic cognitive processing” (David 124). Meaning that one would acknowledge and recall the more important details instead of following the interpretations and judgments of a situation from others. Therefore, the negative emotions actually help people get through their situations or life in general.
Dance is the beginning of the unit and therefore serves as an introduction to mental and emotions.
Abstract: According to the article “Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains how emotions are made” our brain would have to work hard to construct an emotion. You would take a long time to describe it. Hence sometimes people find difficulties to figure out what they are feeling or sometimes they think that they are not feeling anything.
Mood is the feeling the reader gets from reading a piece of literature. If it is properly made it can be felt through the main character or the text. Many literary devices can aid the development of mood in a passage. In “Denn Die Todten Reiten Schnell,” Stroker uses techniques of diction, types of imagery, and elements of narrative stance to create a dominant impression of fear.
Frankenstein Human emotion is one of the most complex typical human features. It is believed that many of the human emotions felt throughout the day of men and women everywhere are derived from human instincts that have mixed and weakened over time, so, do humans even need emotions? On a technical level, yes, you are able to “survive” without emotions but without emotions humans tend to get very unhealthy. This is because on a psychological level humans need emotions, and when they don’t have emotional contact, people tend to try to fill this hole in their brain with food or drinking or taking drugs which can lead to people getting sick physically and mentally or dying.
The inability to feel emotions makes someone not fully human and in the book, Lois Lowry shows the devastating consequences of suppressing emotions. WIthout emotions and feelings, we are not so different than robots. Because of this, emotionless humans can be easily led and controlled by the command of someone with a higher position. Consequently, the Elders can order around the citizens without any objections. After all, it only takes a certain amount of anger to revolt. Not only they are deprived of the opportunity to be unhappy, but also the opportunity to be happy. They do not experience envy or jealousy, but they also don’t experience love or sexual desire. The only exception is when the Giver shares memories of love and pain does Jonas understand what he and the community has been missing. Somehow, the community doesn’t understand that it’s not possible to experience positive emotions without negative emotions. Even negative emotions can lead towards a good result, such as leaving a bad relationship or overthrowing a tyrant. But the people in the community cannot make their own choices because they cannot feel anything. After I read the book, I realized that to feel is to be
P.’s combination of neuroticism and extraversion scores, the affective plan, show that P. is an introvert. As such, she enjoys the quiet of solitude and solitary activities. With that profile P. might have a few close friends, which keep the commotion of being around others to a minimal level and thus keep her emotional reaction leveled.
According to online research, “feelings” are an emotional state or reaction that the person feels within. There are multiple types of feelings such as anger, love, fear, sadness, and many more that everyone feels. In “Brave New World” there are no painful emotions or emotions that cause psychological or physical pain, everyone is blindly happy in which creates social stability. It would be impossible to help people emotionally if we do not know what they feel or how they are feeling. Feelings are vital for reproduction and relationships and so much more.
Hochschild’s discussion of feelings allows us to understand how our feeling provides us with the bearings and guidance we need to reach a sense of both subjectivity and objectivity. The next question is: what do we do with this knowledge? According to Hochschild, we need to manage our feeling, either by surface or deep acting, in order to manage our display of feeling in the world. Hochschild (2003, p. 35) is convinced that all of us do a certain amount of acting, that self is performed. In understanding how surface and deep acting is accomplished, and in explaining its connection to emotion, Hochschild used the work of Stanislavski (1965), who is known as the father of ‘method acting’.
Have you ever imagined our world having no emotions and feelings? Are you willing to live in a community without joy, tears, triumphs, failures, hatred, and love? In the motion picture "The Giver," a community was reorganized after a tragedy occurred on Earth. Memories of the past, including emotions, were all erased.
It all started after the era of ‘Good Feeling’, which did not last very long. The states of America were divided into three sections; the Northern states which were manufacturers, the Southern states which were made of family farms, and the Western states which had big plantation farms and used slaves to do the work. They all had their selfish reasons to be split apart, and none of them did not care how their actions affected the other section, which affected the nation.
Discuss how care and attachment influences the development of emotion in children and how this in turn influences their behavioural motivation.
Reason v. Emotion: is the Western philosophical heritage dominated as it is by Reason too one-dimensional?
If anyone knows another language, or if English is your second language, please write briefly how you think and feel about language as a vehicle to understanding the nuances of a culture. If English is your only language, just please respond to what others might have said.
Chapter 1 explains the work of a Harvard psychologist named William James. William published the article “What is an Emotion?” in a philosophical journal entitled Mind in 1884. His paper is an argument for the primacy and necessity of bodily systems in producing emotional feelings. James-Lange theory states that physiological arousal instigates the experience of emotion. A Harvard physiologist, Walter Cannon, roundly criticized James’ theory, claiming that, according to the Cannon Bard theory, physiological changes follow emotional expression.