...My reflection of the empathy exercise gives an insight into aging and it’s a good experience for me because it gives me the ability of being old feels like. I did the empathy exercise on the wheelchair by navigating through obstacles just to get across, but I had to reroute every time I get stuck on an obstacle and couldn’t go through to get from destination A to destination B. Through, the of rerouting I had to make several turns and slows down and take my time without causing any injury to myself to get to my destination, while a young person can walk through the obstacles like it’s nothing. Being old make’s everything in a slower pace and handle with care because old people are very fragile and when they fall their body doesn’t heal as fast...
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...emotional insight perfectly balanced with the ability to reason. Logic and abundant feeling combine to persuade. “What’s tricky about persuasion—and it’s this point that 12 Angry Men clarifies so thrillingly—is discerning the difference between getting others to think as you do, an obnoxious and risky use of power, and getting others to investigate themselves to discover common truths and facts—truths that transcend preference, prejudice, fear, and competitive jockeying. The courtroom drama, as a result, is usually a loud wake-up call as well, a reminder that there are such common truths.” ability to discern the behavioral signals of people—their often subtle but very real concerns, needs, orientation, and disposition. This is what we mean by empathy. Researchers have hypothesized—and found evidence to support—a positive correlation between this cognitive “sixth sense” and effective leadership. In short, leaders who are more empathic are better able to reach the fulcrum of their followers’ judgment. Perhaps the most obvious is having the courage of our convictions, especially in the face of pressure from others. The lead character – played by Henry Fonda – is under significant pressure form his fellow jurors, but he is determined to explore all of the evidence before he reaches a conclusion. He chooses principles over expediency. Important decisions should be given time. In the movie, a boy’s life is in the balance – if found guilty, he will be executed. So Fonda’s character (called...
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...7 Sep 2004 AR AR231-PS56-14.tex P1: IKH AR231-PS56-14.sgm LaTeX2e(2002/01/18) AR REVIEWS IN ADVANCE10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070141 V I E W A N I N C E S R E 22:24 D V A Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2005. 56:14.1–14.28 doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070141 Copyright c 2005 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved First published online as a Review in Advance on September 10, 2004 PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR: Multilevel Perspectives Louis A. Penner Karmanos Cancer Institute/Family Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 40202, and Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; email: pennerl@karmanos.org John F. Dovidio Psychology Department, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York 13346; email: John.Dovidio@UConn.edu Jane A. Piliavin Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; email: jpiliavi@ssc.wisc.edu David A. Schroeder University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701; email: dave@uark.edu Key Words altruism, cooperation, helping ■ Abstract Current research on prosocial behavior covers a broad and diverse range of phenomena. We argue that this large research literature can be best organized and understood from a multilevel perspective. We identify three levels of analysis of prosocial behavior: (a) the “meso” level—the study of helper-recipient dyads in the context of a specific situation; (b) the micro level—the...
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...will be boys,” or “boys don’t cry.” What do these phrases really mean? Are boys really pre-determined to be aggressive and emotionless? Co-authors of Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, would argue that this is not the case. As psychologists specializing in helping young males, Kindlon and Thompson bring to light the notion that boys are just as emotional as their female counterparts. They show how a boy without a good understanding of his emotions will likely face many difficulties in his upbringing. Reflecting on my own adolescence experiences, I feel like I am able to validate the claims of Kindlon and Thompson. The main argument expressed in the passage is that “boys need an emotional vocabulary. They need to experience empathy at home and school…they need modeling of a rich emotional life.” (7) Without this, they argue that boys are destined to struggle throughout their childhood and adolescence. “They are forced to manage conflict, adversity, and change in his life with a limited emotional repertoire.” (4) I never realized it at the time, but looking back, I can tell that my parents always fostered the growth of my emotional vocabulary. If I had a problem at school, my parents encouraged me to talk to them about it. If I was in an argument with my brother, we were separated and asked to talk over how we felt. Never did my parents try to shy me away from showing and understanding my emotions. As a result, I never had any of the big issues growing up that the...
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...ROGERS AND GLORIA’S INTERVIEW The Self Concept theory refers to the “picture” which individuals have of themselves and how much worth or value they attach to that “picture”. People often have a very specific view of themselves and they judge, punish or praise themselves, based on that certain view. Rogers portrays this view of one’s self concept as one’s conscious experience of himself or herself. In the interview of Rogers and Gloria, Gloria sees herself as dishonest and inadequate. She feels that her sexual desires, as a women, makes her devilish and she feels that nobody will accept her if she shows her Real Self to them. Gloria has a certain picture of herself; the person she wants to be and even more importantly, the person she wants people to see her as. Rogers defines this phenomenon as the ideal self, the person the individual would most like to be. Gloria wants to gain the acceptance of her daughter and her father. This signals Gloria’s strong need for positive regard and even more importantly, her strong need for positive self-regard. She wants to feel loved and accepted for the person she really is, but is too afraid to show. Positive self-regard refers to the acceptance of one’s self for which you are, unconditional acceptance, without any doubt. For Gloria to gain positive self-regard, she needs to accept herself, even her “devilish” sexual desires and her fear of being unaccepted. In the interview Gloria shows incongruence. She projects her fear of not...
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...The monster is revealed as a character of surprising depth and sensitivity. All alone by himself, we realize the monster was as innocent as and defenseless as a baby. He has been suffering with the trials he has faced during his time alone, being hungry, cold, and no shelter. He experiences the world as a kid would, not know anything about it. He had to learn by himself how to find food, make fire, and how to make shelter from the cold or rain. A the monster explains his tale, he sounds surprisingly gentle and peaceful. He did not sound like a true monster would sound. The terrible though is that, every encounter with humanity; he has been met with horror and disgust. The monster does not really mean any harm, but it's just his appearance which makes him such an outcast. He's an outcast and no fault on his own; he has never showed any kind of love or companionship. For this reason, sympathy comes along in the subject because of the life the monster has. He has been treated with such disgust and hatred all his tme and for no good reason. Other readers too probably start to sympathize the monster as well as you hear his story. You realize, the monster isn't really a monster, but sort of a confused child lost in the world. People though, would still treat him as an actual monster. The monster compares himself to those who have shunned him and really starts to believe that he really is a monster. He sees himself in a reflection and is shocked...
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...Work place Examples Emotional Thinking: Emotional thinking can be useful in the work place in certain circumstance for example a hospice nurse can connect with their patients and their families better when they use emotional thinking this allows them to have empathy and understanding for the family. Emotional thinking can also be harmful in the work place as well because in some jobs if you allow your emotions to get the best of you it can cause bad decisions to be made for example a person such as an EMT has to make quick decisions and if they allow emotions to get in the way it can cause harm to the patients. Persuasive thinking: Persuasive thinking is used in every work place. Some places it is the primary thinking strategy used such as a car sells man they use persuasive thinking on the customer to get them to think that the car they are looking at is right for them and this is the greatest purchase they will make in years and they are getting a great deal too! While salesman uses persuasive thinking to get the customer to by a product other companies use this strategy to get all their employees to achieve the goals of the company. This is too persuasive the employee to believe in the company’s goals. This could be used for production of the staff or even good customer service. Idealist Thinking: This is a person that has a high knowledge and experience and growth with in a company this is someone that can make deadlines no matter the issues that may come about...
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...Heres what I got so far... Everyone seems to ask themselves what do they really want from their life? What are we all really striving for? While people should ask themselves what can they do to help others? When a person helps other they meet their physical and emotion need. Helping others also brings compassion and compassion equals a better society. From a person coming from a rich family they have more opportunities open to them to achieve what they want. While a person from a poor family doesn't have the "easy life" compared to the person from the rich family. A person coming from a poor family has to go through more obstacles, and struggles to achieve what they want. Since my mom is in the health field during my childhood she would tend to take me with her to her work, and random clinches, hospitals, and offices. Even though I didn't really do anything great or big, but it made me want to go into the health field. Being a hospital volunteer really made me feel sympathy for the people who were sick and ill, and that made me want to help others. Every time I do something I get a feeling accomplishment from helping others. After high school I hope to continue my education hopefully at Yale University. Yale has always been my dream school since I was a kid. I believe that the environment there will benefit me and help me towards my career goal which would then help me achieve my physical and emotional...
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..."There are a broad range of counselling micro skills that can be utilized effectively in therapy sessions. Within the context of their personal history, effective micro skill applications can encourage clients to tell their stories in colourful and extensive detail. Such effective implementation of micro skills facilitates the development of rapport and a positive therapeutic alliance thereby permitting clients to enrich their perspectives regarding problem and opportunity situations in their lives (Egan, 2007). Three important counseling techniques will be explored, all of which have been clinically demonstrated to be efficacious in a broad range of counseling settings (Egan). The skills of active listening, empathy and sharing empathic highlights will be discussed and analysed within the framework of a counselling case study. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to examine the use, efficacy and deficiencies of how these skills were employed within a counselling session with a mother, let's call her Mary. Mary presented to counselling with a five year history of frustrated attempts to get her daughter to sleep consistently in her own bed. On one hand, she had gone to extraordinary efforts to influence and sustain effective sleep patterns in her daughter. On the other, a feeling of being out of control permeated drained resourcefulness. Mary felt she was too compliant with her daughter's unwilling behaviour and sought help from a counsellor. The surface structure of...
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...“Guest of the nation” “Guest of the nation” touches upon the dilemma of justifying war on a personal moral and ethical level, and in describing this conflict it implicitly also touches upon the horrors of killing, and perhaps more importantly on what it does to a human being. The text tells the story of three Irish soldiers holding two Englishmen as prisoners of war and is split into four parts. In the first part we are told about the daily life and interactions of the irish- and Englishmen. Their relationship is generally characterized by an unusual amount of mutual trust and friendship considering that they belong to rivaling armies, and especially considering that the cause that the Irish are fighting for is probably personally motivated, rather than being the result of a draft. In the second part though this situation is darkened and complicated, by the fact that Jeremiah Donovan reveals that they are holding the Englishmen hostages as a mean of negotiation with the British, and that they are to be executed soon. In the third part the orders to execute are given, and part four depicts the Englishmen’s reluctant realization that they are to be executed by people who they perceive as friends and equals, as well as the Irish's reluctant attitude towards this execution, as Bonaparte puts it: "Why did any of us want to plug him? What had he done to us?" (S.62, L.7). The overall dramaturgical structure of the text can therefore be seen as a transition from an initial...
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...Leadership is an act of guidance that creates successful results. Leadership encompasses both human and knowledgeable qualities. Daniel Goleman and Mitch McCrimmon provide research and their personal conclusions about leadership. Goleman believes that there are human qualities involved in providing leadership, while McCrimmon identifies that there are technical approaches involved in leadership. Although each author discusses different aspects of leadership, both aspects are important in providing effective leadership. In this report, I will identify the research and other experiences that influence each author’s major conclusion and will provide my opinion on the more convincing article. According to Goleman, decisions are made based on emotions, which results in leadership. This is evident at the beginning of “The Emotional Intelligence of Leaders”, where Goleman provides a personal encounter involving emotional intelligence and leadership. He and his wife were traveling and see a man in a wheelchair, soliciting on the street. Goleman gives the man some cash, but the cash falls onto the street. As Goleman drives away, he realizes that the man is disabled. Another individual sees that the disabled man has encountered a problem. The individual solves the disabled gentleman’s problem by getting out of his vehicle and returning the money. Goleman states that the individual’s reaction to the disabled man’s problem contributes to emotions. The...
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...Christine Salazar Mid-Semester Essay Test Human Relations What is Emotional Intelligence? It’s a conscious habit of naming and identifying our emotions on a daily basis that makes us aware of our feelings at they come up in day to day interactions with others. It helps us to control our emotions in overwhelming circumstances, allows us to communicate our feelings to express ourselves more effectively and also helps us to become mindful of others feelings as well as our own behaviors. Over all, a well developed emotional intelligence creates empathy. In today’s work place, Employers are finding it harder and harder to find so they are resorting to classes and continuing education on emotional intelligence. Without emotional intelligence it would be difficult for a manager to coach and direct their team effectively. Emotional intelligence greatly affects how a person handles situations that come up in the work environment. For instance, if a person is angry and hostile, then he is more likely make decisions that are based on retaliation and revenge where as if they had a well established emotional intelligence, then their decisions are more likely to be based on common knowledge and an attitude that is positive and driven towards resolution and fairness. So with emotional intelligence you are able to control your feelings, not the other way around. A person with high emotional intelligence is more likely to be able to make more sound decisions for themselves and...
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...In his new York times essay “where sweatshops are dream” writer Nicholas D. Kristof makes a number of points regarding what he sees as an adverse effect of labor standards compliance on the economic development of low-income countries that we feel require some clarification and comment. His purpose in this essay is to let people know that sweatshops can help people. Kristof assumes his readers are Americans that are repulsed by the idea of importing products made by barely paid barely legal workers in dangerous factories. By establishing his credibility, building his case slowly, and appealing to both logic and emotions, Kristof succeeds in writing effective argument. Most of us think that we make our decisions based on rational thought. However, Aristotle points out that emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgments. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions. Kristof appeals to pathos by using words or images designed to move readers and appeal to the reader’s emotion. Emotional appeals can use sources such as interviews and individual stories to paint a more legitimate and moving picture of reality or illuminate the truth. “The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn.” “Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.” This examples show how Kristof creates...
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...Study of Attitude, Empathy, and Human Uniqueness of Emotion in Animals Abstract This correlational study was conducted to determine and explore the relationships between empathy, attitudes towards animals, and beliefs about human uniqueness of emotion. This was a quasi- experimental because we studied man versus women and also pet owners versus non-pet owners. We expected to find a positive correlation between the empathy and AAS score. While also exploring the relationships between the HUES and empathy or AAS score. We predicted that women would have higher empathy and AAS scores than men as well as pet owners having higher AAS scores than non- pet owners. This study was conducted in New York, where 60 voluntary participants completed surveys. The results of the study illustrated and provided a statistically significant positive correlation between scores on the E-Scale and the AAS and a significant negative correlation between scores on the E-Scale and HUES and well as between the AAS and the HUES. There was also a significant gender difference in AAS scores with women having more positive attitudes toward animals compared to men. However, there was no significant gender difference in HUES scores. Similarly, there were significant effects of pet ownership on both E-Scale scores and on AAS scores. Specifically, pet owners had higher levels of empathy and also had more positive attitudes toward animals compared to non-pet owners. There was no significant effect of pet ownership...
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...employee is upset and pulling them aside to soothe or listen to them, then provide reasonable advice or comfort if wanted. Mayer and Salovey (1997) broke emotional intelligence into four branches. Those branches consist of; 1. Perception, Appraisal and Expression of Emotion 2. Emotional Facilitation of Thinking 3. Understanding and Analyzing Emotions 4. Ability to regulate and control emotion The basic idea of this model is how to interpret emotion of others and yourself in order to use and control them in day to day life. Goleman (1998) added to Mayer and Salovey’s theory, Goleman’s consists around skills that are learned. These skills are; 1. Self- Awareness 2. Self- Regulation 3. Social Skills 4. Empathy 5. Motivation The basic idea of this model is leadership qualities, knowing yourself and your effect on others. Goleman also believed that emotional intelligence is a learned behavior. Emotional intelligence is important because it can affect work, a person’s health, and socially. In the workplace, emotional intelligence is needed to work with teammates, lead or help motivate, or to help further your career. People with low emotional intelligence can lead to health issues such as high blood pressure, anxiety and depression (Segal & Smith, 2013). Segal and Smith (2013) stated that most employers now look for emotional intelligence rather than IQ. Emotional intelligence can help you socially but know how to respond to friends and...
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