Handling Emotions Subject N told me this story about how she was chosen for student of the month and couldn’t express how she was feeling because she was feeling more than one emotion. She realized that, she said she felt “excited and nervous” because they needed to interview her to display it in the hallway. She is showing an understanding that more than one emotion can be experienced. During my second time observing her she was also sad because her friends cat died a week ago, showing she is aware of events that lead to emotional reactions (Denhman, Bassett, & Wyatt, 2007; Denham & others, 2012; Kuebli, 1994; Thompson, 2013c, d). When it comes to coping to stressful situations, Subject N just tries to not think about it and talk about something else. Her mom brought up her upcoming spelling test that was happening that Friday and Subject N just nodded her head then started talking about this new book she started to read. It was not only interesting to see how Subject N reacted to stress but also how her mom reacted to her reaction. Her mom wasn’t surprised at all, and she just went back to cooking food without any further discussion about the spelling test. I think that ties right back to her indulgent parenting style but also I don’t think she …show more content…
It was awesome to observe Subject N in a public place around her peers. I think from this specific relationship seen between Subject N and her friend, that the peer influence is positive. Her friend, who is also eight years old, engages in prosocial behavior, which was kind of surprising. In the interview with Subject N’s mother, she said she watches them together a lot and is really close with her friend’s parents. Subject M (eight year old friend) donates some of her chore money every month to the animal shelter and she loves it. I think if Subject N continues to hang around this specific peer, she will have a high self-control by age 10 (Meldrum & Hay,
The first section explores the “flat-brain theory of emotions, flat-brain syndrome, and flat-brain tango” (Petersen, 2007, pp. 2-45). All three are interrelated (Petersen, 2007). The flat-brain theory of emotions “demonstrates what’s occurring inside of us when things are going well, and how that changes when they are not” (Petersen, 2007, p. 11). Petersen’s (2007) theory “explains how our emotions, thinking, and relating abilities work and how what goes on inside us comes out in the ways we communicate and act” (p. 8). The “flat-brain syndrome” describes what happens when an individual wears their emotions on their sleeve. This “makes it
I see both cognition and emotion as the driving forces of Dan’s behavior as he struggles with earning admission to medical school. They both include multiple factors that are impacting Dan’s experience with getting into medical school.
Emotions rule the world. Every decision ever made was backed by one emotion, whether it was happiness, anger, or sadness. Relationship also thrive off of emotions, and how individuals choose to express themselves. Growing up I would watch how my dad would display his emotions and how he expressed himself. I was always intrigued by the way he seemed to not care about different things, later to find out that he really did. For some reason I just did not understand why my dad would not show affection like my mom or my grandma. As I got older I noticed that other males in my life would act similar to my dad when it came to emotions. I have always wonder why men and women displayed emotions so differently. I would ask myself was it the society that we live in, or men simply just wired differently than women. With this paper I hope to provide information that better explains why men and women are disconnected when it comes to emotions with Emotional Intelligence.
Johnson (2009) conducted a study to test the hypothesis that an effective method for regulating emotion is goal-directed attentional deployment. The sample was comprised of a total of one hundred and nine participants. All of the participants were undergraduate psychology students from the University of Oklahoma. These students chose to participate in this experiment for an alternative course credit. Forty-two students were males and the average age was nineteen years old.
By assessing the personal meaning of events, emotion comes up. What’s more, positive emotions have not only a role of marking happiness, but also a function to continue
Social Psychology of Emotions can be defined as a form of mental states that has the potential to give rise to various behaviors in an individual. Research suggests that most of the emotions experienced by a person are inherently social, which implies that they cannot be encountered in the absence of other feelings (Baumeister & Finkel, 2010). Baumeister and Finkel, are of the opinion, that the social aspect of emotions is what forces people to interact more with others as they seek a means of illustrating what they may be feeling. Some of the notable emotions experienced by individuals include affection, jealousy, shame, and sympathy.
Emotion and cognition are intricately intertwined and hard to tell which is influencing us in our everyday lives. While the former are sometimes referred to as feelings and affects (this term would be used interchangeably with emotion in this article) or “hot cognition”, the latter is often thought as our reasoning, or “cold cognition” (Zajonc, 1980). However, it is quite evident from our day-to-day account of events that it’s always the emotional parts of life that catch our attention - especially the bad ones. For one thing, as a general phenomenon, bad news is considered more newsworthy and can easily attract more reader attention (Baumeister,
...oes for most of the emotions that people feel. I never really noticed any of this before I started writing this paper. I shared this information with my best friend and she was amazed that the way people interact is generally the same within groups in society. She now has a better understanding of the communication patterns and behaviors of people and she is not even in the class.
My challenge is going to be to control my emotions and how I allow them to influence my leadership abilities on a day to day basis. By recognising how I react in certain situations, and how this in turn impacts those I lead I believe this is the most key change I can make personally that will improve my leadership abilities. It is my belief my default routine of mentally shutting down is linked to this.
Emotion is defined as the reaction to a stimulus, which is only inferred and not observed. Emotions play a powerful role in shaping thoughts, influencing behavior, and steering motivation to do things. As much as it helps with understanding the people around you and building relationships, it plays a big part in influencing daily decisions and behavior. While emotions are a universal language and may be a crucial key to getting to know yourself and the world, it hinders your perception and judgment as what you may think is right, may be wrong for someone else. This essay will further elaborate on the strengths and weaknesses of emotions in different areas of knowledge.
For 16 year old Abby dealing with school, work, and her home life is not as easy going as it is for others. She lives in a household with her dad who is a single parent and her two younger brothers. She takes care of her younger brothers most of the time while her dad works the night shift. On a daily basis Abby experiences many different things that make her feel stressed. Abby’s alarm goes off at 5:45 she struggles to drag herself out of bed still exhausted from the responsibilities of yesterday. She hops in the shower and gets herself ready for the day. She then wakes up her two younger brothers, while they are getting ready she cooks them eggs and toast for breakfast and packs their lunches. She gets them out the door and takes them to school. Once she gets to school she starts to feel more pressure. As each class goes on and she finds out her homework for the night her stress starts to build. She thinks about how she is going to get it all done before she goes to work knowing that she has to take care of her brothers. She tries to make lots of friends but she finds herself much more mature than most of the other kids. After school she picks up her brothers and takes them home. She begins her homework but is constantly interrupted by her brothers fighting. At about 4:30 she prepares dinner, doing a little bit of homework every free second she might have. She sits the boys down for...
Mayer and Salovey (2001) maintained that emotions help prioritise, decide, anticipate and plan one’s actions. In order to effectively manage one’s emotions, one must first learn to identify and recognise them accurately. They should not neglect their emotions as this will reflect lack of self-awareness. For example, when someone lost their loved ones, they choose to be in a state of denial allowing themselves to be drowned in depression and sickness. They refused to get away from feeling negative and find solutions to overcome their emotions. These group of people face difficulties in recognising, identifying and managing their emotions.
Emotions have developed along with the sophistication of the brain as an organ throughout the process of evolution. Instinctive feelings necessary for survival, such as thirst, hunger, and sex drive, are the oldest and most primitive “emotions”, and they are present in many non-human creatures. The monitoring systems in an animal’s body send signals to the brain when the body is in need of food or water, and this triggers the firing of neurons that in turn advise the creature to search for these necessities. Because these instinctual feelings are reflex related, they originate in the brain stem of primitive creatures (do Amaral). As animals progressed and their brains advanced from just a brain stem into the cerebellum and eventually the cerebral hemispheres, they began to experience more complex, affective emotions including love, friendship, and maternal care (Bekoff 861). Humans possess the most complex brains, and therefore it is believed that humans experience the widest range of emotions. Experimental evidence has shown that human emotions result largely from interactions between several different parts of the brain, known collectively as the limbic system (Thompson 29). The more psychological view of emotions claims an emotion is expressed in reaction to one’s individual interpretation of the surrounding environment. This explanation provides a slightly higher-level view of the issue at hand. However, how and why humans feel something during an emotional experience is still unknown and heavily debated. I believe that these feelings arise as part of the epiphenomenon of consciousness that is unique to living beings, and therefore the complete human emotional experience cannot be mechanically replicated....
Have you ever wondered why people have certain reactions? I chose chapter eight on emotions for my reflection paper because emotions are something that everyone has and feels, yet cannot always explain or react to in the way you would expect. Personally, I have never been great at responding to emotions in a way that I would not regret in the future. Thus, naturally being drawn to this chapter as a way to expand my knowledge on how to react to things more positively. I also wanted to learn why I feel a certain way after events that would not affect most people and be reassured about my feelings. Opposite to that, it is nice to see that, while not always productive, others have the same reaction habits. Overall, emotions are a complicated
From the moment they wake up, people experience events that trigger certain emotions. How people react to these events may depend on that person feels during that event. In terms of whether our emotions control us or we control our emotions, I believe that to some extent emotions control us. Because we cannot change how we feel in response to certain stimulus, emotions control us. However, people have some control over whether or not they act on their emotions. Emotions at that given moment can influence our actions. If people can control their reactions, then to some degree we are controlling our emotions. However, the prompts raises several important questions. How can one’s emotions alter other ways of knowing such as perception or reason?