...What Are Emotions? Emotions seem to rule our daily lives. We make decisions based on whether we are happy, angry, sad, bored, or frustrated. We choose activities and hobbies based on the emotions they incite. What exactly is an emotion? Answer: * "An emotion is a complex psychological state that involves three distinct components: a subjective experience, a physiological response, and a behavioralor expressive response." (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2007) In addition to understanding exactly what emotions are, researchers have also tried to identify and classify the different types of emotions. In 1972, psychologist Paul Eckman suggested that there are six basic emotions that are universal throughout human cultures: fear, disgust, anger, surprise, happiness, and sadness. In 1999, he expanded this list to include a number of other basic emotions including embarrassment, excitement, contempt, shame, pride, satisfaction, and amusement. During the 1980s, Robert Plutchik introduced another emotion classification system known as the "wheel of emotions." This model demonstrated how different emotions can be combined or mixed together, much the way an artist mixes primary colors to create other colors. Plutchik suggested that there are 8 primary emotional dimensions: happiness vs. sadness, anger vs. fear, trust vs. disgust, and surprise vs. anticipation. These emotions can then be combined in a variety of ways. For example, happiness and anticipation might combine to...
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...References: Dr. Sanjay Joshi, 2008, August, 12, Managing Workplace Emotions - Latest Findings: http://ezinearticles.com/?Managing-Workplace-Emotions---Latest-Findings&id=1415703 de Sousa, Ronald, "Emotion", 2010,January 14,The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring2010Edition),EdwardN.Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2010/entries/emotion/ Wright Mackenzie, eHow contributor,2011, How Do Your Emotions Affect Your Behaviors?, http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4600645_emotions-affect-behaviors.html Antonio R. Damasio, 2005, March, 24 Scientific American Mind, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=feeling-our-emotions Term Paper on Neuropsychology (Emotional Behavior) Joy Ann F. Burgos B.S.PY-32 October 06, 2011 Emotion According to Dr. James W. Kalat, emotions are difficult to define and even more to understand completely, but somehow, these are considered as the inner feelings or states of mind that are associated with a physical change and are expressed by an outward behavior. In the scientific world, experts attempts to discover which comes first: the mental feeling, physical change or outward behavior. That’s why people have been attempting to understand this phenomenon for thousands of years and definitely will also be a debate for a thousand more. All of us have different emotional and psychological needs which cannot be ignored, over-controlled...
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...A Report on An analysis on OB application of Emotions & Moods: The case study of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited A Term Paper on An analysis on OB application of Emotions & Moods : The case study of Shahjalal Islami Bank limited Course Name : Organizational Behavior Course Code : F-301 Submitted To: Samia Sultana Tani Professor Department of Finance Faculty of Business Studies University of Dhaka Submitted By: Group No: Submission Date: 1st July,2015 [ ii ] Group Profile: SL No. | Name | ID | Marks | 1 | Shaidur Rahman | 19-059 | | 2 | Niaz Mohammad | 19-061 | | 3 | Sharmin Jahan | 19-085 | | 4 | Momtaz Jahan | 19-091 | | 5 | Ferdaus Akter | 19-117 | | 6 | Mosavvir Al Ashick | 19-131 | | 7 | Sampa Mandol | 19-153 | | 8 | Shanjida Shoma | 19-195 | | 9 | Tahsinun Nur | 19-203 | | 10 | Sumaya Eysmin | 19-205 | | [ iii ] Acknowledgement First of all we express our gratitude from heart to the Beneficent, the Merciful & Almighty Allah for giving us the strength and patience to prepare this term paper within the programmed time. We are deeply indebted to our course teacher, Samia Sultana Tani , Professor , Department of Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka, for her co-operation and precious contribution in preparing the report. It gave us the opportunity to know and prepare the report...
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...When you’re in a relationship and your spouse doesn’t really show all the emotions you want them to can make difficulties in your relationship. Emotions give us important information that we can use to better each other understands on our needs, priorities and limits. We use emotions to set our boundaries and that helps us make decisions. If you’re not expressing your emotions that can make your spouse being to have trust issues, and insecurities. When your partner isn’t sharing their sadness, or when they have a loss showing their grief, then your relationship isn’t safe when having to deal with conflict. If your partner doesn’t show their healthy anger or assertion then their resentments will over time build up. Mostly men won’t show their emotions because they were told it was a sign of weakness or a sign of them not being in control of their emotions. Also, some people think that once they get into their emotions then they will be overwhelmed with emotions and not stop. A common misconception is if you start crying then it becomes hard to stop. People often avoid their emotions, they try to ignore their emotions or they wait until they get somewhere alone and then they let all of their emotions out. It’s very frustrating when your partner doesn’t show their emotions and doesn’t communicate their problems either. We are made to have feelings the way we express these feelings is how we were raised when we were younger. Knowing how to express those feelings tactfully to be able...
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...Humans have complex emotions that makes us much different from any other species. The ability to think and have a conscious can even make every single one of us different just by the way we act and process information, but when emotions become unstable or unyielding people become sightless of one’s true self. Emotions operate human actions and drive making them arguably the most important function of the body. Certain emotions can cause problems for human life such as anger, sadness, and fear. Too much of any of these is an awful thing that causes violence, depression, and insecurities for most people today. Unlike other emotions, these emotions have a negative connotation that shows us the importance of emotional intelligence, emotional skill,...
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...Motivation and Emotions Motivation and emotion go hand in hand; they are interlinked and influence each other to a great extent. The question many ask is- how? Well, it's simple really. Let's see what motivation and emotion are defined as individually... * Motivation Motivation is the' X factor' that drives you to achieve your goal. With motivation, you know what you want and why you want it. All you need to do is to go about finding ways to utilize your motivation to reach your goal/s. Motivation explains the WHY in any action taken by you. Psychologists have agreed that it is driven by a need or a want that gets molded into behavior that is goal specific, and that the need is then given direction. * Emotion We understand emotions better when we describe them as feelings. We feel emotions, and they are physically expressed via tears, laughter, anger, melancholy, or violence to name just a few. Psychologists feel that emotion stems from perception, and is then brought about due to a hormonal response to this perception. Emotion involves four factors that are integrated as parts of a syndrome. These four factors are tendency to act, bodily or physical reaction, cognitive appraisals, and expressive movements. Feelings and motivation work in tandem to help us reach our goals. At the same time, there are instances when emotion does not need to have an objective to exist, unlike motivation which is completely goal oriented. Motivation And Emotion: The Connection ...
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...Motivation and Emotion Keisha Dolen 22198323 11/20/2015 Essentials of Psychology SSC130 Essay 25072400 Emotions are feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior. There are three models of emotions, The James-Lange Theory of Emotion, The Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion, and the Schachter-Singer Theory of Emotion. The James – Lange theory wonders if gut reactions equal emotions. Does it? They took the view of instinctive response of crying at a loss leads us to feel sorrow, that striking out at someone who frustrates us results in feeling angry. That trembling at a threat causes us fear. For every major emotion there is an accompanying physiological or "gut" reaction of our internal organs. That reaction is called a visceral experience. This theory also has drawbacks. For it to be valid, visceral changes would occur relatively quickly, only because we experience some emotions almost instantaneously. Although emotional experiences frequently occur before there is time for certain changes to set in motion. The slowness with some visceral changes takes place, it is hard to see how they can be the source of immediate emotional experience. The Cannon-Bard Theory is based on physiological reactions as the result of emotions. They proposed the activation of bodily changes. In response to the brain and the message to the cortex regarding emotional experience. This theory really rejects the view that physiological ...
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...One can say that emotion affects speech behavior on the basic level of communication. However, after some research it seems that it not only can affect how a person communicates with someone, but emotions seem to have physiological effects on a person and how they acoustically say things when in a specific emotional state. Emotions play an important role on how we are breathing, the pitch of our voice, the pace at which we say things and many more physiological effects depending on your emotional state. In this essay, we cover a wide range of ways that emotions can affect our speech behavior and how these physiological effects can affect our everyday communication. Emotions can be analyzed on three different levels the first being the physiological level which is when we look at the nerve impulses that are involved with voice production. Secondly, we analyze emotions on a phonatory-articulatory level and this is where we look at the position or movement of the vocal folds. Finally, emotions can be analyzed on the acoustic level where we look at the actual characteristics of speech. These characteristics include, but are not limited to frequency of speech, or the pitch of the voice. Variability in sound production, voice quality, the intensity or loudness of the speech and the temporal aspects of speech, which is when we look at the speech rate, are also characteristics. Each of these is crucial in understanding how emotions can affect our speech behavior. In the study...
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...Every moment of our daily lives consist of many interactions and activities occurring at the same time whether they are specifically directed to us or not. To put this in a nutshell, we are always engaging in some sort of emotion management, the process in which we respond appropriately to our situation based on norms and rules that we have accustomed to (Brym and Lie 2012). An experience from my life when emotion management was in play would be when I had to go run an errand for my teacher; I had to print something for my teacher and bring it back immediately. According to my teacher, I printed the wrong documents and had to have a chat with the teacher. For one, I wanted to tell to my teacher that he didn't explain properly about what I...
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... It is important to control and express our emotions, however it is our ability to comprehend, interpret and respond to the emotions of other people. It is called Emotional Intelligence which brings us to the discussion of this issue in this report. The definition of emotional intelligence ( EI ) in the texbook is defined as a person's ability to perceive emotions in the self and others, understand the meaning of these emotions and regulate one's emotions accordingly in a cascading model. In other words, the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and the feelings of others, for motivating others, and for managing emotons well in ourselves and in our relationships. "People who understand their...
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...The James-Lange Theory, in summarization, suggests that our emotions are triggered by physiologial reactions to events. When we cry due to a loss it leads us to feel sorrowful, yelling and becoming violet towards someone who upsets us causes us to feel anger, shaking or being scared easily if someone was to jump out at us causes us to feel fear. According to James and Lange there is a physiological, or visceral experience, accompanying every major emotion. We can determine the exact pattern of these responses that can help us to reveal the emotional experience. Researchers argue with this theory. According to some, this information cannot necessarily be proved. If a stranger approaches you from a dark alley during the night, and you're walking alone, you're going to immediately feel frightened. Whereas, before a big speech you accquire the same feeling over a length of time, and it stays with you until the event is over. Some don't see how this could be pin-pointed as the exact source of immediate emotional experience. According to Feldman (2010) : The James-Lange Theory poses another difficulty: our internal organs produce a relatively limited range of sensations. Although some types of physiological changes are associated with specific emotional experiences, it is difficult to imagine how each of the myriad emotions that people are capable of experiencing could be the result of a unique visceral change. Many emotions actually are associated with relatively similar sorts of visceral...
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...Emotions are the sustainability of human life; they portray how we feel and how we act. Whether it’s unconsciously or consciously humans have a rare gift of being able to see situations in thousands of different emotional ways that shape our life. The role of social norms and social interactions are shaped by social institutions, discourses and ideologies (D. Wilson). Creating our unconscious emotions that allow us to "act" without consciously thinking. Humanity is controlled though emotions, without fear there would be no law and order. Studies have also shown that minor and major social groups have unconsciously collaborated their emotions, reactions and beliefs in certain situations. E.g. being sad at a funeral. In this essay I will continue to discuss the controversy over conscious and unconscious emotions, by using the article "Strangers in ourselves" written by Timothy D. Wilson. I will related this article to an event were the consumption of a drug called LSD or acid, can altar your unconscious state of thinking and manipulate your mind into changing the emotions you should feel. My emotional event lasted an estimated ten hours and occurred in the hours of 4 pm till 4 am on March 1st. Throughout the day I experienced a variety of different emotions in a variety of situations, mostly occurring in drastic situations. Yet I found my conscious mind thinking of unconscious feelings, which I usually ignore. Thus the emotions I began to acknowledge were changed by my conscious...
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...why horror films are so captivating. King first explores the obvious reasons stating “to show that we can, that we are not afraid, and that we can ride this roller coaster”. He suggests that horror films are much like roller coasters, in the way that they keep us guessing what will be next and make us scream at various parts in the ride. On the surface level, he states that we all watch horror movies for fun. He suggests that we watch for the adrenaline, the dare and to see how far it can push us, and that is what makes the horror genre experience so fun. King then delves into the less obvious reasons, the deeper reasons that many people may not quite be aware of consciously. He argues that horror movies will take away the “shades of grey” in life, and invites the viewers to revert back to a childish mindset, when you were able to see the world in black and white. He argues that this invitation provides psychological relief for the viewer, allowing one to revert to a mindset of “simplicity, irrationality, and even outright madness”. This is not the only psychological relief that the horror genre “world” allows us, however. King makes the point that even as children, we are praised for expressing appropriate emotions, and punished for the bad. While this may lead to...
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...behaviors are persistent or not persistent, and why behavior is directed toward different goals at different times. In this paper I will define the approaches that motivate us and how emotions drive us intrinsically and extrinsically. Motivation and Emotion Motivation can be described as goal directed behavior and according to the reading material Psychology and Your Life (2012) the five approaches to motivation are instinct, drive- reduction, arousal, incentive and cognitive. The first approach is instinct this approach upholds instincts or “inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically predetermined” as the factors that influence behavior (University of Phoenix, 2010, pp. 244-248). The instinct approach explains why we have food and mate- seeking behaviors viewed by all humans as, hunger and sex, they are primary instincts. According to the instinct theory organisms are motivated to behave in certain ways because, they are evolutionarily programmed to do so. An example would be how in the animal world there is seasonal migration. These animals do not learn this roaming behavior, moving periodically from one region or climate to another; it is instead, an inborn pattern of behavior. Drive-reduction is the second approach which states that a lack of some requirement drives us to obtain that need. Homeostasis, the steady internal state with in our body, is included with this approach (University of Phoenix, 2012, pp. 244-248). If your stomach...
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...your participation in this self-assessment increased (or not) awareness about yourself. If you have hit a rut or a roadblock in your career, now may be the time to break out some self-assessments and find out where the problem lies. Assessments like these can help us understand why we have had trouble fitting in at certain jobs, what kinds of skills it would bring us greater enjoyment to use in our work, and which kinds of work environments would make us feel more at home. After completing this Emotional Intelligence self-Assessment, the insights and practical application were incredibly insightful for me. I identified ways in which I need to work together better and healed frustrating and difficult relationship issues. What have you learned about the topic and/or yourself? Here, our subject is emotions—and whether we know what we are feeling and what we do with that knowledge. A friend of mine takes umbrage when I broach the idea with him. “Of course, I know what I am feeling,” he protests. He points to his chest—in the vague direction of his heart—and then to his throat. “I feel my emotions so, of course, I know what I am feeling.” He is only partly right but the fact that our emotions are embodied makes us more confident about our ability to know what we are feeling and our emotional intelligence. It is “the above average” effect —our tendency to over-rate our skill set and abilities—except it is on steroids, as a study by Marc A. Brackett and others showed. Companies...
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