Emotional Transference : How Emotions Took Control

Acts of terrorism plants fear and terror into the hearts and minds of individuals but when mass shootings occur in the U.S., they get classified as murder or hate crimes. This research will show that mass shootings and hate crimes inflict the same type of terror in the hearts and minds of individuals throughout communities within the U.S. as terrorist attacks have inflicted on communities.

Acts of terrorism plants fear and terror into the hearts and minds of individuals but when mass shootings occur in the United States, they get classified as murder or hate crimes. This research will show that mass shootings and hate crimes inflict the same type of terror in the hearts and minds of individuals throughout communities within the United States as terrorist attacks have inflicted on communities.

The D.C. Sniper attacks began on October 2nd, 2002. The attacks were categorizes by the fact that the killings occurred in the metropolitan D.C. area. The victims were randomly selected and were of different genders, ages, and race. These serial murders were highly publicised with constant news coverage of the hunt for the killers. Events were cancelled out of fear, and people even hid as they pumped gas. ”Ordinary people doing ordinary things were transformed into

Christakis and Fowler suggest that emotions most likely began in early human evolutionary stages to promote the bonding of mother and child; later expanding to other family members, then non family members. The ability to read moods and pass them onto each other could have aided early humans in their everyday activities, due to the lack of fully developed verbal communication. It is also stated, emotions travel faster than words. It is faster to read an individual’s face to understand their emotions than it is to wait for the verbal communication that comes along with it; which leads into what the authors call Emotional

Our parents raise us hoping for us to develop certain character traits, but there comes to a point when we start to become our own person based on the experiences we go through, any situation, good or bad, can influence our personality mentally and emotionally. Emotion is what makes us human, it's how we cope and how we manage our crazy lives’. When our feelings get damaged or even nourished, it will change how we react

Dictionary.com lists science fiction as “a form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge in its plot, setting, theme, etc.” goodreads.com lists science fiction as, “a broad genre of fiction that often invgolves speculation based on current or future science or technology.” Harrison Bergeron is science fiction for several reasons. First, it assumes that humans will develop extraordinary abilities that force the government to “handicap” them, so that all have the same ability level in this society. Merriam-Webster defines satire as, “a way of using humour to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.”

The theory of emotional contagion has been an interest of many writers both in the field of psychology and science. The root is not clear whether who

Fear itself is seldom a cause of trauma in everyday existence, but having to face close-range interpersonal aggression is a traumatic experience of an entirely different magnitude (Grossman). During the initial outbreak of terror while everyone is scrambling to save his or her own life, survival mode kicks in and an individual starts to plan on saving one’s self. The need to be a powerful motivator drives an average person to do what any normal person would consider unthinkable. Abandoning monsters plaguing the entire world, helping others in need, or deciding to save one’s self is a decision that will be made. The decision to save one’s own life will bring a person to question his own humanity while discovering the benefits of self-

The mass murder in Newtown Connecticut a year ago caused shock and sorrow all around the world. In Australia it also revived memories of our own horror on a similar scale, when dozens of people innocently going about their day were gunned down by a disturbed young man.

The process of neural coupling makes people have empathy. Empathy is something that you gain when you feel other people’s emotions. It can only be earned when you understand one’s pain. According to Fredrickson, these conscious acts can only be reached by sharing a unified connection. When talking to people, you typically share a smile or you attentively pay attention to their expressions. By doing so, you can reach the level of happiness that you deserve. Yet, Gilbert would say that all these emotions are not possible. You have to rely on your unconscious during these types of moments. These are rare moments that you typically share between family, friends, or strangers. Usually, we rely on our psychological immune system to make us happy. If the process is typically unconscious, how do we know that what we are feeling in Love 2.0 is a real connection between a stranger or soul mate? This concludes that Fredrickson’s theory needs to be assisted by Gilbert’s.

This evolutionary psychology -emotions presents the precise kind of governing function by arranging systems of perception, attention, energy and effectiveness, goal pursuit, as well as the activation of specialized activating specialized interpretations, diversifying decision weightings, and determining behavior (Tooby, Cosmides 1990). They emphasize using the emotion of fear: For example, envision walking by yourself down a dark road and hearing a loud rustling or noise in the bushes nearby. Then your emotions and energies become more aroused as the noises get louder and closer; now indicative of someone or something is stalking you; the verge for detecting movement also becomes lowered, and you are no longer feeling the discomfort of hunger, your interest of captivating someone of the opposite sex is now a thing of the past- “fight or flight,” hide, halt, stand where you are, etc. these reactions and emotions may vary dependent upon the circumstances. Thus these evolutionary concepts are specific to the development of humans and their ability to adapt and

If you’re not paying attention, the mind can be a tricky labyrinth. The less you know about it, the more inexplicable and frightening it becomes. For example, why do seemingly benign elephants wreak havoc upon villages? In “An Elephant Crackup,” Charles Siebert explores the aberrant nature of these elephants and correlates them to their traumatizing upbringing, deprived of community and kinship. The biochemistry of the human mind, analyzed in “Love2.0” by Barbara Frederickson, serves as a worthy addendum to Siebert’s conjecture. “Love2.0” explains that the brain, hormones, and nerves work in unison to build emotional fortitude, stimulate oneself, and express positivity resonance. Siebert’s ideas of elephant culture and trans-species psyche can put Frederickson’s theory of emotions into practice. The absence of certain hormones within elephants, provided their fragmented community, can explain their volatile outbreaks. Alternatively, the reinstitution of human parental roles into elephant culture can help reconstruct their broken emotional states of elephants and rebuild their resilience; this healing process can also extend to humans.

The present essay aims to introduce and analyse the concept of transference. In particular, attention will be given to the significance of transference in human relationships and its role played in psychotherapy. In order to do so, the current paper will firstly present a brief overview of the meaning behind transference. Significant emphasis will be given to the history of such term and how it has been used throughout the years from its first appearance in Charcot’s Theatre of Hysteria to Freud’s neurological writings as well as to today’s psychotherapy. Secondly, the present essay will explore the role that transference plays in human relationships by affecting the individual’s perceptions of new people. Finally, the significance of transference in psychotherapy will also be discussed throughout the analysis of several studies that addressed such area of interest.

Chapter 3 explores the concept of universally shared basic emotions, an idea that was first advanced as a theory by Charles Darwin. Paul Ekman and Jakk Panksepp studied the concept of

For many people, they live their lives based on emotions. Emotions of happiness, love, success, and many more, could possibly be the most satisfying feelings. Except we commonly experience unpleasant emotions. There are emotions of anger, hatred, sadness, and disgrace. A very important question in the understanding of the human mind and highly related to cognitive science, is how do these emotions affect human cognition and the impact on our abilities to be rational? To tackle this question, we need to understand what emotions are, but not solely in the manner we are all familiar with, we need to understand them from a cognitive nature involving our physiology, psychology, and environment. Cognition, according to the Oxford definition