Induction Of Emotion By Wasserman And Liao Summary

In the speech,”Everything you know about addiction is wrong,” spoken by Johann Hari, attempts to inform the audience about how society takes drug addiction the wrong way and is completely normal for a human to use drugs as a last resort in life. The presentation starts off when he explains to the audience the many different drug addicts he has met in his life a few years ago while traveling a long 30,000 mile journey. He then goes onto stating from his research that everything humanity has been taught about drugs is completely backwards. A experiment was done in the 50’s to show the relationship between drugs and social life. The reason people start drugs is not because they want to, but it is caused by not being able to bear a present in your life. Moreover, there is cruel punishments of drug abuse in America and how Portugal has tried to change it in their country. Luckily people can get over any kind of addiction when they have a friend or blood relative that they can call on if they have a crisis. Finally, people should be more supportive and open in their heart when it comes to others that have a addiction. The author uses logos and pathos to emotionally connect and comfort the people that have thought about drugs in their life and people that dislike drugs and addicts, but using ethos he tries to make a change in the natural drug habitat.

In the novel Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, the use of “soma”, a drug similar to an opiate, is used to help control peace and the world. Since soma has been used to configurate the world, there has been no war, mental disabilities, depression or sickness throughout the people. The people are given soma every day to function throughout society without having to deal with stress, anxiety, depression or any other negative feelings, the soma blocks out “feelings” in order to properly thrive without any implications. Soma is not just only used to hide feelings and keep the people feeling youthful, but also to keep the community become more societal and unified. Soma is depended on through the society to deal with any problems, whether

In her article, Brain Gain: The Underground World of “Neuroenhancing” Drugs, Margaret Talbot discuss’ the use of different drugs like Adderall, to boost their productivity. She’s writing to people from college up to people who have 9 to 5 office jobs. She uses her essay to not be on one side or the other, but to analyze both points of view. She never puts in, or implies, that she has had a personal experience, and her background doesn’t give her much credibility to speak on the matter to people who already have an opinion on it themselves. Talbot uses anecdotes to…and she uses statistics. But her thesis strays away from what she was indicating about the drugs.

He assumes that drug addiction originated by younger years adversity in major cases; like many women who are addicted are victims of sexual assault in childhood years. Similar, he tells that males suffered “series of abandonment or severe physical and psychological abuse” (Maté 274) in childhood memory would easily be involved in addiction. According to Mate, drug addicts are usually in a state of unawareness; they can self-harm without feeling pain (274). Maté’s patient, Carl, thirty-six year-old native, angrily hurt himself with a knife as punishment for using cocaine (274). However, people misunderstand that addiction will not happen in families that raise children with a “secure nurturing home” (Maté 275). He argues that it still exists in those secure homes, even though they do not recognize it. In brief, Maté describes the mental factors such as stress, anxiety, and depression which are saddled “from family problem, or from outside circumstance” (274); this pressures can emotionally affect to the process of “endorphin-liberating interaction with their children” (Maté 275). He thinks children would rely on opiates to comfort their deepest emotions; it would be a best solution to escape their lonely world. For that reason, Maté confirms addicts usually blame themselves for “stupid decision” (Maté 275) after being suffered of drug starvation. In the last paragraph, Maté concludes his essay by stating “that is the great wound of all” (275),

the reader understand that the drugs made them feel calm and relaxed but the natural effect of the

She begins by focusing on the idea that using neuroenhancers is similar to antidepressants. While interviewing Seltzer he brings to her attention that “using neuroenhancers is like customizing yourself-customizing your brain. For some people, he went on, it was important to enhance their mood, so they took antidepressants, but for people like him it was more important to increase mental horsepower” (para. 15). Comparisons such as these smoothly lead Talbot into another important comparison-that in the 15 to 1600’s writers would use tobacco or saffron for neuroenhancing. In the 1800’s they talked about using copious amounts of coffee to stay awake and produce writings. Students today “are just the latest members of a seasoned cohort, even if they have more complex pharmaceuticals at their disposal” (para. 16). This is followed by her comparison of neuroenhancing to body enhancing with plastic surgery. Everyone who participates in body enhancing through plastic surgery knows the risks and complications that may come with it but choose to partake. Neuroenhancing is no different, with all the risks of using stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin spelled out it is the user’s choice to take part. By making all these comparisons it may make the reader believe that it is potential that neuroenhancing drugs may not be all the different then some of the other legal substances we use.

As stated before, Cooner needs more logic or facts in her article to support her ethos. Pathos and emotion do strengthen a viewpoint, but logos is required to make sure that readers believe that the article is valid. The models of behavior, if fully understood by the readers, can help support Conner’s claim. The models of behavior help support the validity of Conner’s article. Conner makes readers think about how anxiety occurs in everyone. All humans do feel nervous at least once in their life. Readers can understand that the effects of anxiety are part of human nature (Cooner). Anxiety is part of everyone’s life, and it is up to humanity to come together to find a solution to

The article points out the difference between the normal anxiety and the mental health issue anxiety; specifying different types of anxiety disorder. The National Institute of Mental Health is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services making the source credible. NIMH is the leading agency on research for mental disorders. The source helped me understand what certain medication does to help aid the mental disorder a person can deal with. I resort to meditation and stress management techniques instead of taking medications. The source informs the readers about possible side effects of the medicine; precisely why I did not want to take

During this essay, the writer is researching various ways to beat alcohol addiction for the lawyer and many other people in the United States that is trying to beat this addiction. The writer seems as if she is researching information for a quick cure to beat an alcohol addiction when there are none. The writer starts to experiment with prescription drugs bought online. Purchasing non-prescription pills online very dangerous and can cost you your life as you do not know what you are purchasing from a company.

Culture- The movie Equilibrium is about following the life of John Preston, who is a member of a military team. In this society, all of the citizens are forced to take a drug that suppresses all feeling and emotions. This dominant society no longer valued love, happiness, anger, sadness, etc… all because they wanted to focus on the advancements of a society as a whole. The society’s beliefs were that if individuals didn’t have any emotions, there would be no violence in the world.

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.

This research article was taken from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Journal. This specific issue had a total of ten articles, and while they are covering different topics and studies, some of them do focus on similar ideas. Psychology is all about the study of the mind, and how it has different parts intended for unique functions. It seems like a good portion of the articles for this specific journal deal with emotions and how the body interprets them. One article deals with the stress of different generations, while another deals with an individual’s willpower against sugar. There is an article about self-esteem and how that varies during a lifetime, as well as an article on cooperation. The article that will be specifically discussed in this research paper also has to deal with how the body interprets things when it comes to a stressful situation, such as a crime. It looks at how reliable eyewitness testimony is after traumatic events, specifically in regards to lineups.

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

Infants can focus attention on sensory information coming from the environment because of two tangible brain responses. The first is information picked up by the senses which activates neurons in memory regions of the brain. The neurochemicals from the emotional functioning regions of the brain are sent to the memory regions. Neurochemicals enhance focusing and attention-giving which can actually change the memory neurons. Infants can learn when they changes take place; however, attention is necessary for this occur. It is important to note that attention is the first step in learning.

Then making the assumption that the brain is all about stability and equality, homeostatic is the key term to understand the whole problem he is explaining throughout the text. A person without knowledge about science would have difficulty putting those two paragraphs together. Their after to answer his own question of the probability of being more than well was answered by the research Richard found conducted by Dr. Brian Knutson at the University of California at San Francisco. The test done by normal volunteers looked at the effects of serotonin enhancing antidepressants Paxil and Placebo. Neither the volunteers nor the researchers new who took what, just was assigned to observe the actions of all and later compare. Knutson’s results later stated by Friedman “Compared with the placebo, Paxil reduced hostile feelings and slightly increased social affliction. But Paxil did not make the normal people any happier” (Friedman par 8). And now again brings up the idea of homeostatic mechanisms because the brain not going way over its required levels of dopamine because the brains main goal is to reach homeostasis. Richards conclusion paragraph does not really sum up the text, but he states a couple rhetorical questions and then finishes up with the statement “But