Examples Of Emotional Contagion

Protests riots in the United States has proven to an issue for both the country’s financial strength and the unity of the nation. With the presence of social injustices, combined with the increased impact of social media propaganda, protests riots are beginning to reach an all time high. Protest riots destroy individual communities and businesses, jeopardizes the safety of others and taints the protest’s cause by resorting to civil disobedience. Action must be done in order to prevent these random acts of violence from continuing after every social hot topic. The goal is not to prevent citizens from protesting; in fact, this should be encouraged. The goal is to change the way the protests are handled from both the citizens and authority perspectives, in order to prevent these protests from escalating into something dangerous.

Protests can start out peaceful but quickly turn violent. Though protests can be amazing and cause social change and change within the government they can also turn violent and leave behind a huge mess. An example of this is the Dakota Access Pipeline protest. It started out as a peaceful protest against the pipeline being built close to Native American land and along the way turned into a violent protest. Everything was going fine and as planned then things started going south. The sheriff’s office said, “According to numerous witnesses within five minutes the crowd of protesters, estimated to be a few hundred people became violent. They stampeded into the construction area with horses, dogs and vehicles” (Peralta). In this case, the protest

The demographic of peaceful protests contributes immensely to the increase in attention drawn by the public, which ultimately leads to a greater effectiveness. Many concede that “[a] big turnout is good” (Barabak) but rarely is it ever seen as a negative concept. Thousands to hundreds of thousands of people are convening in large cities to support peaceful protests, which in turn leads to a greater outcome (Ax & Fernandez). Places of large population have become the main

Although Donald Trump won the presidential election, not too many people were happy about the outcome. The anger and disappointment of the people led to an outbreak of protests throughout many cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Berkeley. In order to make sense of the outbreak of protests after the elections, I will use Polletta and Gardner's ideas on narratives and collective identity, Karl Marx’s idea of a divided society, and my own experience and ideas.

Planning for it was also very challenging, since we did not know what to expect. We thought it would be very calm, but really we had no clue. It was also very difficult to continue protesting when the atmosphere became chaotic. I no longer wished to be within the throng of people because, as much as I was aware that they did not actually care about the topic of protest, they were growing increasingly boisterous. In this way, it was demanding to continue protesting and ignore that the situation was causing me a large amount of stress. However, despite the unfavorable conditions, I did learn a lot because of this

The article, Uprisings by George Didi-Huberman explains the actions that coexist with an uprising against authorities and the meanings of those actions. The article defines the term “uprisings” as “a trans-disciplinary exhibition on the theme of human gestures that raise up the world or rise up against it: collective or individual gestures, action or passions, works or thoughts” (Didi-Huberman, 2017). There are five different components that make up the aesthetic for an uprising: Elements, Gestures, Words, Conflicts, and Desires. Elements are the factors that make the people want to upraise against authorities and their laws. The action to go forward with rising and the idea of committing to the action are the gestures portion. The purpose

For decades social psychologists have scrutinized the impact of priming on an individual's behaviour. "Priming" indicates to the trigger of certain traits by controlling environmental factors. Recent studies have surfaced the finding that a desired behaviour can be brought about in an individual by the mere presence of relevant situational factors .The extent to which a person has control over his or her emotions is still under a lot of scrutiny. However it is proven through numerous studies carried out by many researchers that many of the behaviour brought about by an individual are voluntary in nature. This experiment is carried out to investigate this very concept of psychology.

It is important to remember that while this is a protest, it is not a social movement. The protest was not tied to one group, and had no level of continuity. It also did not satisy the non-institutional tactics prong that all other social movements do. Simply, it was hundreds of students, some frustrated, some angry, but all united to have their voice heard in the result of a tumultuous election

Change seemed more possible and probable, and more people became convinced that if they joined they could make a difference: their own beliefs were influenced through the informational cues. Additionally, there were unexpected participants, including celebrities and respected figures. Many activists were actually from elite families close to the regime leadership, and their involvement helped create a powerful information cascade by giving demonstrations the visibility necessary to reach and affect the rest of the

One would assume that in order to get a better understanding of the causes for “social movements” you would begin with motives derived purely from social factors. A majority of the early academic research on social movements are based on theories rooted around the concept that “groups” themselves drive the dynamics of social movements. Most of the early literature points to Collective Action Theory as the foundation of the academic study of social movements. The Collective Action theory, as defined by Gustave Le Bon, in his book Psychologie des Foules states, that societies are formed by small groups of intellectuals who impose their will on the masses. Groups of individuals take on mental unity and lose the ability to think rationally and morally when they are part of the masses (Oberschall 4-5). According to Touraine, for a social movement to take place there are four factors that define the circumstances. First,

Analyzing research methods used for uncovering basic emotions applied to the Cannon-Bard emotion theory and Drive reduction arousal theory. The Cannon-Bard theory of emotion is a stimulating event takes place, emotional, and physiological changes occur (Changing Minds, 2010). A person may feel muscular tension as well as sweating to the situation. A research method associated with the Cannon-Bard emotion theory would be the evolution theory. This method is an idea where emotion aids species survival (Decker, 2010). An example: A person is hiking through the woods approaches a snake. The appearance of the snake evokes fear, which in return causes the emotional experience. Fear produces behavior and emotion to run, muscular tension, or possibly cry. The emotion evoked by the predator or event causes the survival. The Drive reduction arousal theory is an approach to motivation that assumes behavior arises. Arousal is the source of emotions. Second, arousal is the impetus for attending to

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

In the next paragraphs I will consider some theories, factors and evidence on cognitive controlling of emotion in terms of

213). As a whole, society tends to mirror the emotions of the person who is speaking or of the person who is playing a part. If a person goes to a play and the actors are experiencing fear, than the people who are watching the play will tend to experience that same fear. If one actor is mad at another actor, than the people watching the play will either experience that same emotion of anger or they will side with the other actor and experience the emotion that the other actor is feeling, whether it be uncertainty about why the other actor is mad at them or a feeling of sadness because the other actor is mad at them. Imitating others emotions happens all the time in society and as long as there is communication between people, whether it is verbal or nonverbal, this catching of emotions will continue.

Affective Events Theory is recognising different factors that cause employees’ emotional reactions on their work and how the emotional reactions influence the employees’ job performance (Greenberg, 2011). This theory helps employers to understand employees’ moods and emotions at workplace. Affective Events Theory examines the impacts of work-related incidents on emotional reactions and the following consequences for attitudes and behaviour (Russell-Bennett, Hartel & Beatson, n.d.). Ashkanasy (2002) stated that Affective Events Theory is the collection of a sequence of positive or negative affective events that turns to positive or negative affective states. If there is a negative affective event and turn to negative affective states, it will threaten attitudinal states and behavioural reactions of employees (Ashkanasy, 2002). This theory also clarifies as an approach of counterbalancing judgment-based theories of work attitudes and behaviours (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996).