Emotion

evolutionary perspective of psychology, human emotions likely served a practical purpose essential for survival, thus being adapted through the generations by the process of natural selection. Essentially, emotions solve adaptive problems. Not surprisingly, most problems from an evolutionary perspective predominantly concern either survival or reproduction, although different emotions have distinct solutions to a variety of situations. For example, the emotion of fear may have the evolutionary…

Creation of Emotion in The Hunger Games While we watch movies, we are made to feel different emotions. This is because all directors have a goals to entertain and connect with the audience. To do this, directors use different aspects of film to connect the audience to the characters on-screen. In The Hunger Games, director Gary Ross evokes variations of sadness and discomfort to connect viewers to the characters through music, sound, and character emotion. In the next few paragraphs, I will…

How to stop absorb others ' negative emotions? Bad mood and pessimism are "contagious." As you learn to resist? Emotions, especially stress, anger, disappointment, shock - these are all energies. And you can "catch" the negative energy emitted by other people, even you are not even aware of it. All people are emotional sponges, but the degree of "absorption" is different for everyone. Some are free to swim in a pile and a mass of negativity, not feeling much of discomfort. And some of these…

This study will be guided by James-Lange: Theory of Emotion In 1884 and in 1885, theorists William James and Carl Lange might have separately proposed their respective theories on the correlation of stress and emotion, but they had a unified idea on this relationship - emotions do not immediately succeed the perception of the stressor or the stressful event; they become present after the body’s response to the stress. For instance, when you see a growling dog, your heart starts to race, your…

Managing Emotions Ritika Trikha wrote an article on managing your emotions in the workplace and she provides some of her own perspective, but the majority of her article provides examples that from excerpts from other articles or information from studies. Within her article, there was valuable tips on keeping emotions under control, some science and studies that were conducted to help determine what are causations, and listed exercises to help tame your mood. In Robbins, (2015, pp. 90-91) we…

crossed him. This is because they are led and overcome by two of the most powerful and impactful human emotions: love and hate. Although they are opposites, they share the incredibly strong power to vastly impact decision making. People will do unbelievable things for those they love, and unspeakable things to those they hate. In Desiree’s Baby, Kate Chopin shows us first hand the impact that both emotions can have on people and their decision making. The characters in Desiree’s Baby end up in…

way of viewing life. One of the greatest things I’ve learned from these experiences is that human emotions are universal and like Plato said. “ All human actions arrive from desire, passion, and reason” In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlett Letter we see all of these. But there are three major emotions that are created throughout the novel, and aids the reader get the idea of human nature and his emotions are human frailty, hypocrisy and the possibility of redemption. These feelings are universal…

dramatic and incorporating the audience’s feelings into the movies. The feelings are relatively the same, but also very different; the most popular examples can be sad, and empathy. Certain events in the movies can or could trigger these specific emotions over and over again throughout the entire movie. Two examples that come into mind is “Titanic” and “The Help”. Almost everyone has heard and seen these two popular movies that are based over two different tragic periods…

Overall, I believe I have a great ability when dealing with intense emotions. During the last two years, my family has dealt with some significant interpersonal problems, many of which have caused my mother great stress and heightened anxiety. I found myself frequently listening to her recount each day’s negative events that sometimes turned into very emotional periods of non-stop crying. Although some people may wish to walk away from a person since they do not know how to comfort them, I was…

Challenging Five Myths on Emotions First myth: Allowing for my emotions creates suffering. It is just the other way round: trying to escape from emotions that feel uncomfortable to us is what creates suffering in the long run. It is impossible to suffer without judging our experience. If we feel anger, fear or sadness and judge these emotions as bad and unwanted, what we do is trying to cut ourselves off from the part of us that feels them. Every emotion is a messenger and numbing ourselves…