Why Crying Has Its Perks

There are many ways to get someone’s pulse racing, and one effective way is based on how suspenseful a movie is. Many people who are thrill-seekers love the rush of excitement when they watch a scary movie, particularly one filled with lots of suspenseful scenes. It is said that the brain is wired, “to perceive what it sees as real” (Sparks, 2015). Therefore, it is difficult for the brain to ignore what is not considered reality, and if the movie is very realistic and terrifying than the brain will make the body react accordingly. To test how suspenseful movies affect people physiologically, an experiment will be conducted to test how the heart rate is affected by suspenseful movies. The movie, Jaw, was preselected on the basis that movies that contain realistic things terrify people the most. The movie is about a young woman who is killed by a shark while swimming in the ocean and the police who investigate the case decide on closing up the beach. However, the mayor overrules it, believing that the shutdown of the beach will affect the income for the town. So, a scientist and a retired sailor decide to help the mayor on a trip to find the killer beast and end it all.

If I was doing this study, my hypothesis would be that “people, who receive an aversive stimulus every time they give an incorrect answer, will try harder to get the correct answer than those who do not receive anything”. My independent variables, which are the variables that researcher manipulates, would be the electric shocks and the emotional motivation; and my dependent variable, which is the variable that is tested and measured, would be the members’ results.

At the start of their lives, babies are programmed to seek out the things that they want by crying. As they mature, though, children's emotional capabilities expand, allowing them to develop a variety of skills that they will need in their adult lives.

Before starting the discussion of emotion-focused therapy, it is very important to have an understanding of what emotion is. Historically, emotions were seen as nonspecific and disruptive; however more recent analyses have emphasized the functions that emotions serve (Hebb, 1949). Although emotions address different adaptive problems, they generally facilitate decision making, prepare the individual for rapid motor responses and provide information regarding the ongoing match between organism and environment (Schwarz & Clore, 1983). In addition to this, emotion also serves as a social function for they inform us about others’ behavioral intentions, give us clues as to whether something is good or bad and control our social behavior (Greenberg & Safran, 1987). From an emotion-focused perspective, according to Greenberg (2004), emotion disorder is seen as a result of more failures in the dyadic regulation of affect, avoidance of affect, traumatic

Life is full of emotions, whether it be happy or sad. It is what keeps everyone going.

As a therapist, having self awareness can help to determine if crying may be helpful or harmful in specific situations. While crying may be helpful for the therapeutic process, it could also potentially cause more damage.

Today, gender roles somewhat loosened compared from the past years, and cultural winds have somehow shifted back the idea of crying as a sign of manliness. Sharon Martin, a licensed psychotherapist in a private practice in San Jose, California, suggests that there are many advantages to having a good cry. “I encourage crying because it purges negative energy and allows for new, positive energy to fill us up. Sometimes people feel embarrassed or ashamed about crying, especially in public. Crying is normal and nothing to be ashamed of,” she told Medical Daily in an email (Borelli par 3). “Shedding a few tears does not only mentally cleanse us, it can cleanse our body too, she added (Borelli par 4).”

In the article, crying is a way of communication, and it helps to promote the close relationship between people or families. Gary Ferraro, the author of the textbook, expresses that nonverbal communication means humans send and receive messages without using words (Ferraro p.142). By relating to this concept, crying is one example of nonverbal communication, and in the articles, the author points out that crying carries strong emotions which include empathy, surprise,sadness, anger and grief, and it will not only affect the emotional change of people who cry, but also of other people around. According to the article, 52% of people report feeling better, so more than half of people can release their emotions through crying. Also, 65% of people tend to cry with one or more person present.

Imagine seeing an abusive video, it creates a lot of emotion in people. It brings out another side of them either emotionally or physically making them want to do something about the situation. Now when people start a new job they usually go through some type of training getting them ready for the work. That’s what this experiment is about, but it’s not just your average type of training. In the Article “Increasing Cognitive Readiness Through Computer and Videogame–Based Training” by Jorge Peña and Nicholas Brody, a study was made to see if exposure to emotional or tacticle miltatry videos had an effect on two compents of congnative readiness, emotional regulation and metacognition. Also examining how social identification factors such as

The participants were asked to rate the characters at the start of the film when they first appeared to help avoid demand characteristics. They were then given strict instructions not to discuss the film to help avoid contaminating each other's initial thoughts. Rater reliability This study involved four participants. This experiment was set up so that two of the participants rated all 21 of the movies and the other two participants each rated roughly half of the

Thus, we can see that emotions and desire create a personal effect within documentaries, to allow for the film to resonate with the

The students for the study were split into two groups for the two conditions. The two conditions were contiguous and noncontiguous with 25 students in each. The participants were given consent to sign, read the instructions and a cover story. It was understood by the students that the study was researching information about gun violence in the US. The film viewed was called “Bang You’re Dead” by Alfred Hitchcock and lasted 20 minutes.They were randomly given one the film conditions and were told to raise their index finger each time they heard the word “gun” in the film. The instructions were also not repeated to them throughout the study. The word “gun” was said 7 times in both

In the study conducted by Anderson & Shimamura (2005) film clips were used as the stimuli. They assessed memory for neutral words presented during film clips which were designed to elicit different levels of emotional arousal. Four film clips: a neutral film, a positive film, a negative film, and an arousal film and a list of neutral words where used as stimuli, in the study phase, participants watched the four film clips with the audio turned off. At the same time, they listened to words presented on headphones. After viewing all four film clips, participants were administered a free recall test for words presented during the films and after the free recall test, participants were tested on details of the films as well. This film survey test

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There were placebo pills that were said to either freeze their mood or to enhance their mood. Basically the participants were asked to write a short paper and then they were all harshly criticized and the researchers were looking to see how their mood was affected, and if venting about their anger would help. Questionnaires and other methods were also involved in this study but they were used for other measures than the catharsis theory and I felt they were not important to include in the analysis of their research. In sum, Bushman, Baumeister, & Phillips (2001) found that individuals who do show aggressive behavior or any type of venting, do ultimately improve their own mental