In the book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become, Barbara Fredrickson discusses the biological aspects of love and the connections that people can have through interactions with each other. Fredrickson aims to increase the reader’s knowledge of how love works and she even tries to change the way people view love. She wants people to take a more static and scientific approach to connections between people rather than the emotional mystery that people view it as now. Sherry Turkle on the other hand wrote the book titled Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other where she tries to uncover how human interactions and connections work by observing human responses …show more content…
“Why would humans communicate with each other in the first place?” is a good question to consider when exploring this topic. The biggest and most significant benefit of communication is the fact that communication is the primary medium of transferring knowledge and information between people, leading to advancement throughout all of humanity. Through a basic survival lens, people could talk to others to tell them where there might be a potential food source or a potential water source. People would also communicate and warn each other about predators. Then, as language evolves and times change, people would communicate less about biological needs and more about ideas. Through the sharing of ideas, multiple people could work together to bring such ideas into fruition, which is still relevant today where people share an idea they have hoping to inspire others to share their vision and work with them to accomplish their goal. Communication at this point in human history would also be used as a method of connecting with other people. “Brain coupling … is the means by which we understand each other … Evidence for synchrony in two people’s insulae suggests that in good communication, two individuals come to feel a single, shared emotion as well, one that is distributed across their two brains” (Fredrickson 112). The connections formed between people are an integral part of what makes us human, and we owe part of our own individuality to the interactions we have with other people. The world as we know it today would not be possible without communication and sharing information between other people. Through communication, people can band together, form societies, and rely on these societies to make their lives easier; and in doing so, society becomes a deep-seated part of human life and
Love has been instilled as the "sexual desire...or blood ties of kinship...special bond and commitment" by society and mainstream culture and the new knowledge simply interrupt a well established and accepted idea. The reality of the biological aspects gives a demeanor of an attachment of two minds or two bodies parse rather than embodiment of love between two individuals. The experimental reasoning has not only stripped the attraction but sentimental aspect of love . It is often said that when people fall in love their hearts just know and they have a special feeling and that is what most people try to find, the emotion of love. The biology of love seems to detach the emotion from the individual by making love a matter of the brain rather than the heart. Furthermore, the notion behind "love at first sight" looses all meaning; as Fredrickson quotes from a collaborator, there must be "a true meeting of the minds- a single act, performed by two brains" , in essence the brains have to be coupling in order for the connection to truly forge and thus making "love at first sight" a thing of the past. The new insight forces an individual to
It has always been part of human nature to form a bond with another person. These bonds may be as trivial as friendship or as strong as love. Love is very complex; it takes a lot of effort and insight to form love with another person. As complicated as love is, why people form these bonds is even more complicated. There is the more biological reasoning, supported by Barbara Fredrickson in “Love 2.0”, that says people need it to survive. As seen in Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”, love can also be formed to either replace an old love or guide one or both people. Continually, in Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together”, people form bonds of love because they love what they nurture. Since love is ingrained in human nature, there is often little choice
Communication is key is any society. If we were unable to communicate with one another then how could our society grow and get better.
Communication has been around since there has been life on earth. We communicate in two different ways; verbally and non-verbally. Verbal communication is talking, singing, basically, using our voice. Non-verbal communication is facial expressions, body language, eye contact and sign language. People may not realize it, but they communicate non- verbally all of the time, even when there isn’t any word said. It is basic human instinct to communicate whether it be for an emergency or just for entertainment. Since the up rise of the internet, cell phones, and technology, there has been an increase of communication in between people; most of the time, it is non-verbal communication.
Sian Beilock is the author of this novel, the information written by her would be considered credible due to the fact that she is a leading expert on brain science in the psychology department at the University of Chicago. This book was also published in the year 2015 which assures readers that the information it contains is up to date and accurate. The novel is easy to understand and the author uses examples of scientific discoveries to help make the arguments more relatable. Beilock goes into depth about how love, is something more than just an emotion, it derives from the body’s anticipation. “Volunteers reported feeling
In The New Humanities Reader edited by Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. We read about Barbara Fredrickson the author of the book “Love 2.0” copy right (2013). Barbara Fredrickson is a psychologist who show in her research how our supreme emotion affects everything we Feel, Think, Do and become. Barbara also uses her research from her lab to describe her ideas about love. She defines love not as a romance or stable emotion between friends, partners and families, but as a micro-moment between all people even stranger (108). She went farther in her interpretation of love and how the existence of love can improve a person’s mental and physical health (107). Through reading
Human are still social, technology just changes how human socialize. Technology is everywhere; it has changed every aspect of human’s lives, the way they read news, listen to their favorite music, buy books, book their holidays, even the way they stay in touch with friends and family. Technology rules everything and most importantly how and why humans communicate, and see the world. In “Alone Together”, Sherry turkle, a psychoanalytical psychologist, discusses how technologies changes the way humans relates to each other. She argues that technologies promises to let humans do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains humans as they try to do everything everywhere. Therefore, humans often seek out to robots and technologies to
Love is a level of emotion too difficult for a strict definition. Love has existed since the beginning of time and it still exists even in the hectic society we live in today. Over the years, the involvement of technology within every day life and romantic relationships has grown. We can even see how it has begun to affect these relations in “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian and in a more dramatized sense, the film, The Entire History of You, by Brian Welsh, where more advanced technologies are used to even break relationships. A common concept that flows through both of these pieces is the overuse of technology.
Social interaction is the very basis of social life and the foundation of society. Further growth and progress in society would not be possible without interactions between individuals. However, the presence of an individual as a function of society does not bind them into a social unit. It is when a group of people cooperate that allows society to develop. Therefore, interaction is the very essence of social process. Furthermore, communication is the medium of interaction. The ability to communicate with other individuals is an important element of human life in terms of interacting and developing our society. Individuals thrive from success through the approval of others. In communication, an individual develops from the views and opinions of another person. It is important to consider that as a result of society's development, our system of communication also changed. While maintaining the traditional way of communicating such as physical interactions, individuals turn to other forms of socializing through the use of video games and the internet.
It is the way to interact with each other can help find the strengths and weaknesses that each member have and it allows the team to help each other and creates a comfortable atmosphere for the team to work with each other. During our first team meeting, we start to know each other by sharing information and we do it by communicating with each other. One would talk and the rest of the members would listen to the person talking and that how we learn more about each other. Every single meeting we had, we always communicate with one another whether there is a question, a conflict, or just wanting to talk, as a team we would listen no matter what. For instance, one of our meetings was about selecting a topic for the final team project, as a group we discuss among ourselves what ideas are good and we fully go deep in details. Communicating with one another helps each of us get different opinions and ideas from one and another, where we can be more creative as team. “We don’t send meaning; we create it based on our experiences, background, and culture” (Beebe & Masterson, 2014). We communicate like this because we can understand on how each of us think and hearing from each member in the team
Love is many things; it has not one description that can be pin pointed. Love can be described as the openness of a relationship, the sexual attraction between partners, or can be seen as pure attraction to each other’s personalities. In Jonathon Haidt’s book, The Happiness Hypothesis, he writes about the types of love there are and which he believes is the most important. There are two main types of love, companionate and passionate love. Haidt defines true love as companionate love, having more importance in a relationship than that of passionate love. Companionate love is perceived as a stronger love than Passionate love, because of a better understanding in companionship and passionate love will not be everlasting. The idea of companionate over passionate makes sense, but media has formed a different outlook on love that has warped the genuine imagery of love.
Interpersonal communication is very important in everyday life. It helps us build a relationship with another, also it helps us to satisfy our physical needs, identity needs, social needs and practical goals. Communication lets people exchange their feeling and information through verbal and non-verbal communication through social media or face to face communication. Communication can be effective and ineffective depend on the individual communication skills. The ways we communicate with another can be influenced by family, friends, significant other also within the culture and region where we stay. Each person has a different set of rule to communicate with another, so this is how miscommunication happen. There are some expectation and way
Communication is a source of delivering messages form one to another. Through communication people share their ideas, feelings, thoughts and emotions. Man carries out his needs and also helps others by knowing each other.
Since the time when man first learned to express how they felt in written form, by drawing or writing, we have tried to communicate with other people. First, it was the prehistoric man with their conceptual cave drawings showing what animals to hunt, how to hunt them, and how to cook them. Soon that form took to hieroglyphics, in which the Egyptians would tell stories about battles they had won and about new pharaohs that had been born. This picture form soon turned in to words in which the Romans would communicate with one another. So it went, each generation progressed more and more, until it was the 20th century.
Conversation is ultimately very beneficial to a community. It helps people to form bonds with each other and to make strangers feel like friends. This type of talk engages the mind and can improve relations with other people. Conversation brings together people that have common interests, but also welcomes those of different interests or