Human Relations With Robot Companions / Artificial Intelligence

Our emotions affect us in so many ways. Emotions affect the way we behave, our views and opinions, our relationships and our decision-making; therefore, they are very relevant to our day-to-day lives. It is important that people have an understanding of these emotions and that they are able to interpret them. Emotions can both help and hinder our ability to best live our lives. It is also important to realize that even our emotions are shaped and biased by our environment and those close to us.

Attempts to define “emotion” have proved to be rather difficult. Instead of searching for a comprehensive definition, Gross (2011) describes the three core features of emotions. First, emotions occur when an individual decides that a situation is relevant to his or her goals. Second, emotions are multi-faceted, and involve both subjective and physiological experiences, as well as behaviors. The third feature involves the authoritative nature of emotions. They have the powerful ability to interrupt ongoing processes, assert their priority over other activities, and force their way into awareness. For example, some traditions describe emotions as “disorganized interruptions of mental activity” (Salovey & Mayer, 1989). Emotions are such an

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

Emotions are often thought to be personal. One may say “I am sad.” or “I am mad.” or I am scared.” and frequently we believe those emotions are inhabiting just the body in which they were created.

This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective ' observes in some detail the ways in which we engage the world through sixteen different emotions, with several of their permutations. Following Heidegger; who believes that emotions tunes us to the world and Sartre; who reasons that emotions have a purpose, Solomon claims that we are responsible for our emotions. This coincides with the fundamental Stoic insight that we “are” our emotions. Aristotle discussed certain emotions at length, notably anger, which he described in remarkably modern terms. Commonly classified as a basic negative and destructive emotion, emotional reactions can usefully be read as, and ultimately even identified with, strategies we adopt as a way of dealing with the challenges of our lives- for example, prompting us to fight for justice and protecting our rights. Thus even

Our emotions in many cases affect our perception of events as well as the actions that we take ourselves by permeating our way of thinking, and therefore affecting each thing that we do in that moment. In particular, emotions about the perception of ourselves have been shown to have both the ability to positively and negatively affect our actions and performances in life. This is what can be

Humans are a void capable of many different emotions like happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. These emotions are what lead your way into the world and give you life. Emotions are the way that people see you, and the way you see people. They are the way you conquer life. Different people conquer life with different emotions like (with) confidence, aggressiveness, and with sadness(with touch of anger).

The concept may sound reliable, however, there isn’t any set of ground rules to carry it out. That is to say as much of this sounds ideal in the article, however, doesn’t translate well to the real world. Frankly, emotions are hard to handle or even interpret because of many factors, especially since it one’s personal response on how they feel at a given time. The article proposes great points of views which provide many examples, especially of prominent people like Plato, Elias, and Durkheim. With these authors credited in, it provides the article with reliability. Furthermore, the article is well researched based on the findings and is logically

The author hesitates to let emotions speak for themselves without an example or hard evidence to upkeep the credibility behind his teachings. Concluding a story concerning his experience with a friend with Alzheimer’s disease, Roth writes “For me it remains a strong reminder of how once we understand we give everything in our life its meaning, we can begin to control what happens to us and even convert our own adversity into a gift to ourselves and our loved ones” (24). The entire story of his friend and the family’s struggle through Alzheimer’s displays sentiment, but Roth appears to end it unexpectedly with logic. Nevertheless, Roth is not heartless and references emotion numerous times in this chapter. This influences the reader, they find attraction to the idea of being happy. A sociology researcher, Katherine Walker wrote an article: Sociology of Emotions. She states in her overview “Emotions are of sociological interest because they are a primary human motivation, they help in rational decision making”. The Achievement Habit appeals to emotions while Roth urges individuals to improve their lives.

Besides, her achievements and successes, Russel’s work have had a profound influence on sociological thought and theory. Her work surrounding the sociology of emotion helps to understand how emotions, “offer a special vision of how we experience and appraise social settings, and (…) how [they] partly constitute what we think of as social settings” (Kemper 117). In essence, Russel uses her notions surrounding the development and action of emotions towards everyday contexts and issues. More specifically, drawing inspiration from other commonly used sociological models (The Organismic Model and The Interactional Model) Russel develops a third perspective which she coins as the “Emotional-Management Model.” To elucidate, this model highlights how emotions are used as “attempts to reconcile our expectations with the actuality of situations in which we find ourselves” (Appelrouth &Edles). As a side note, Russel also explains how emotions are innate at birth, as our senses. Similarly, to the development of “self,” though, they also have the ability adjust or change depending on the social setting or context as a form or type of signal functioning. They also can be influenced culturally and socially. In a similar fashion, emotions also can adjust their intensity in what Russel terms as “emotion work.” In this notion, she explains how the “self” can exaggerate or lessen the type of

Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals." - Julian Michaels

Most humans can access the same basic emotions, but even so, their upbringings and subsequent experiences uniquely build each of their personalities. Dave Isay, author of Ties That Bind, would agree with such a sentiment, even titling the third section of his book as “Two Sides of the Same Heart.” This segment contains a collection of stories that revolve around the theme that humans are capable of experiencing¬ the same real emotions, despite retaining different backgrounds and mindsets.¬¬

Because of this novel, it became clearer to me that our emotions affect our decisions and the way we treat people around us. We should not let our

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