ROBERT LEVY
Robert Levy argued that feelings are not necessarily emotions. It all depends on the relationship between the person and something else. A feeling tends to provoke some sense of action. In addition, feeling is the physiological state of an individual, or something inside of that person. The example used in class is the statement, “I am wet.” We explained this by saying that the feeling is what happens when some part of a person’s body enters conscious awareness. Another example could be breathing. We do not spend our time consciously taking each breath. We just breathe without ever really noticing it, unless something happens, such as breathing harder than normal after running.
A feeling becomes an emotion if you understand it
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He looked at the difference between hypercognized emotions and hypocognized emotions. Hypercognized emotions are emotions that are surrounded with cognition. In other words, there are more words to describe it, more schemas associated with the emotion, etc. An example of this would be anger. There are a lot of different words to describe anger within the English language, such as rage, irritation, or frustration. Levy said that the Tahitians talk about anger a lot. In fact, the Tahitians fear anger, because it is considered destructive and hurtful. Anger must be controlled. This does not mean that they are angry more often. Instead, they just talk about it a lot. This is a good example of a hypercognized …show more content…
Affectless emotions are emotions without any physiological reaction. For example, if you are around a bunch of people that are acting a certain way, it may cause a display of emotions without the actual feeling. Or in Samoan culture, someone may show respect by bowing or obeying a person, but that does not mean that they feel any sort of respect for that person. Emotionless affect is when a person has a physiological response without emotion. This may go back to display rules; an individual can feel those feelings, but cannot show the emotion because of what is expected of them. For example, a Samoan cannot be angry with their parents. I am sure that they still feel angry, but they must not express it. Interestingly enough, there is a way of expressing this, without really expressing the anger. In Samoa, the term often used is musu, or “I don’t want to.” There is no need for an explanation so no one has to admit that the reason they don’t want to do something like wash the dishes is because they are angry. If you can’t acknowledge that you are angry with a person, it may come out in other ways. This suggests that culture can control but not entirely eliminate. Again we are seeing that biology may play a larger role than
Consider the second criteria of emotionality. Emotionality is one’s ability to feel and be affected by emotion. While all average individua...
William James analysis of emotion revolves around his theory that an emotion is nothing more than the senses and feelings we experience in our bodies that come about after we perceive something. He says that " … the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion". He gives several premises to back up this theory.
To further elaborate, Solomon suggests that emotions are normative judgements. An emotion is a marker of value to an object, action, or situation. Furthermore, in his writing, Solomon is very careful to distinguish a feeling from an emotion, feelings are not emotions. Solomon explains this discrepancy though the following reasoning: Firstly, emotions (and not feelings) are about something. Secondly, emotions cannot be distinguished into feelings. Third, emotions can last while no feelings do. Finally, feelings may persist beyond the experiencing of an emotion.3
...l leakage. Through this process evidence for the threshold at which emotional leakage reaches a maximum could also be found.
There are multiple feelings, moods, and senses that people use every day. Two of the primary feelings used is
The road taken by Warren, that emotionality requires self-observation and integration, is far too polar in that it completely negates the hormonal influence on emotionality. Emotionality ought not be defined in either of these ways because when doing so one wrongly restricts different form of emotionality. This would be the equivalent to defining a dog as a four legged animal, or a domesticated carnivorous animal with four legs, long snout, fur, canine teeth, and a tendency to bark or whine. The former definition sets the bar too low in that every four legged animal can qualify as a dog whereas the latter sets the bar too high in that some dogs may not actually qualify as dogs using that definition. For this reason the definition of a dog has to be somewhere in the middle. Thus when extending this example to emotionality it becomes clear one should take an Aristotelian approach in defining emotion because it would not be polarizing. The emotions we feel (happy, sad, angry, etc) is partly influenced by hormones such as dopamine and partly influenced by our own self-observation of markers. Integrating hormones and self-observation ensures we cover the spectrum of emotionality. This further ensures that the capability of
Thinking implies that an individual settles on a choice primarily through rationale. Feeling implies that, as a rule, he or she makes a choice based on emotion (based on what they feel they should do).
Emotions play an essential role in our everyday lives and the majority of individuals are not consciously aware about it. Based on how someone’s emotions are for that day, depends on what kind of day that person will have. In essence, the person’s day is impacted by their emotions. The question whether or not a person can control their emotions voluntarily varies from person to person. In some cases, people are able to handle their emotions depending on the situation they're in. For instance, a person cannot lash out on another person because it is not socially acceptable. However, some people do and let their emotions get the better of them. The controlling of one’s emotion is known as emotional regulation. Emotional regulation is the ability
Emotional regimes and emotional communities are a part of all societies both in the past and the present and as such, the analysis of both is crucial in understanding the culture and motives of the societies. Moreover, the comparison of the theories, noting the differences, can further enhance one’s understanding of societies, thus making these theories a valuable tool for
Emotion is the “feeling” aspect of consciousness that includes physical, behavioral, and subjective (cognitive) elements. Emotion also contains three elements which are physical arousal, a certain behavior that can reveal outer feelings and inner feelings. One key part in the brain, the amygdala which is located within the limbic system on each side of the brain, plays a key role in emotional processing which causes emotions such as fear and pleasure to be involved with the human facial expressions.The common-sense theory of emotion states that an emotion is experienced first, leading to a physical reaction and then to a behavioral reaction.The James-Lange theory states that a stimulus creates a physiological response that then leads to the labeling of the emotion. The Cannon-Bard theory states that the physiological reaction and the emotion both use the thalamus to send sensory information to both the cortex of the brain and the organs of the sympathetic nervous system. The facial feedback hypothesis states that facial expressions provide feedback to the brain about the emotion being expressed on the face, increasing all the emotions. In Schachter and Singer’s cognitive arousal theory, also known as the two-factor theory, states both the physiological arousal and the actual arousal must occur before the emotion itself is experienced, based on cues from the environment. Lastly, in the cognitive-mediational theory
The feelings and emotions go hand in hand depending on who you are dealing with and what the situation you are in consist. In conclusion these two emotions are almost sometimes one and the same and share a relationship of being an emotion towards a person can feel for another person i.e. (parents, children, spouse and so forth) Or even for an object i.e. (a house, a car, money and so on).
Another one of Aristotle’s philosophy was regarding the emotion and selective perception that summarized by B.R. Hergenhahn in History of Psychology’s text book (p.56- 57). Aristotle brought the awareness on emotion when he proposed that without emotion, humans could be missing on what is relevant (S.Nancy, 1989). He suggested that emotions influenced and intensified one’s behavior. For instance, people who are afraid tend to run faster after being threatened by a snake as compared to leisurely jogging. When people are angered they have a tendency to pick a fight because emotion can drive one’s motive of action. Anger can be excited from the injury that someone has caused and fear does elicited when facing danger and both happened because of the presence of cognition process. Aristotle added that the emotion cannot be blind feelings but intended by directed states.
To conclude, researches propose a number of theories that experience human emotions. The James-Lange theory of emotion and the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion belong to one physiological category of theories. However, chosen theories differ greatly from each other. While the James-Lange theory affirms that different physiological states respond to various experiences of emotion, the Cannon-Bard theory claims that humans react to an inducement and experience that is related to the emotion at that time. Both theories have individuals that criticize them and it is up to the individual to decide which one to
The ability to experience and express emotions can be a long process. Everyone starts experiencing emotions pretty much from the day of birth; as a person grows up with their family every single day they become more experienced and have more emotions that can help create and form their lifestyle. The decisions a person makes is always influenced by the emotions they have at the current time and the emotions they have experienced before. Experiencing emotions are easier than expressing them. Emotions may be easier to express at a younger age, but as anyone grows older it becomes more difficult. Both experiencing and expressing emotions are different for everyone. The ability to express emotions can be influenced by a person 's culture, personality,
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?