Japanese people’s collectivistic orientations."(Miyahara) This study conducted shows how the Japanese people‚ members of the Eastern culture‚ have a relatively low expression of emotion. "Emotional moderation in general might be expected to be observed in collectivist cultures more than in individualistic cultures‚ since strong emotions and emotional expression could disrupt
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experience many different types of emotions. They come about by your thoughts. Happiness‚ excitement and joy are caused by an increase in serotonin levels‚ and by thoughts of what one considers to be pleasant. Anxiousness‚ depression and guilt are also emotions humans experience‚ but they are caused by a drop in serotonin levels. Rage and anger are also among some of the most common emotions that affect humans. It is a psychological feeling described as “an emotion characterized by antagonism toward
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Knowledge issue: Understanding people emotions‚ reading people emotions through expressions and language‚ but there is also a misunderstanding to some emotions. How do people understand others emotions? People understand emotions through the facial expressions that one may make‚ and through language. Facial expressions are the key to understanding how somebody is feeling even if they do not say anything. Reason also has an effect on understanding ones emotions because we tend to think of why the
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Emotion and Facial Expression Neither emotion nor it is expression are concepts universally embraced by psychologists. The term "expression" implies the existence of something that is expressed. Some psychologists deny that there is really any specific organic state that corresponds to our naive ideas about human emotions; thus‚ its expression is a non sequitur. Other psychologists think that the behaviors referenced by the term "expression" are part of an organized emotional response‚ and thus
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Are moral emotions adaptive? Moral emotions are experienced by everybody in some way or form and relate to how individuals respond to moral violations. Moral emotions may be critically important in understanding people’s behavioural adherence (or lack of adherence) to their moral standards (Tangey‚ Stuewig & Mashek‚ 1992). Kroll and Egan (2004) state that “Moral emotions provide the motivational force—the power and energy— to do good and to avoid doing bad”. There are many moral emotions that individuals
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Christian Scherrer‚ student number: 013851259 Analysing and synthesizing passions Aspects of Cartesian and Spinozist method It has often been noted that in the third part of his „Ethics“ Spinoza follows in his list of definitions of affects to a great extent the one of passions given by Descartes in his “Passions de l’Ame” (apart from divergent evaluations of some of the passions1‚ like Spinoza´s refusal to include admiratio among them). It also appears that both of them are building a taxonomy
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Have you emotions ever gotten the better of you and you just couldn’t control it‚ or you weren’t really thinking what you were doing because you just couldn’t control your anger or jealousy? Well in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare‚ the two characters Tybalt and Romeo‚ because of their emotion clouded mind‚ set the whole tragedy in play. Before I go on about though‚ I must be brief with my summary. The whole story is mainly about “A pair of star-crossed lovers takes
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from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[1] It can also be a virtue representing human kindness‚ compassion‚ and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[2] It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans‚ one ’s self or animals.[3] Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek
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Emotion 2004‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 1‚ 87–94 Copyright 2004 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc. 1528-3542/04/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.4.1.87 BRIEF REPORTS Gender and Culture Differences in Emotion Agneta H. Fischer‚ Patricia M. Rodriguez Mosquera‚ and Annelies E. M. van Vianen Antony S. R. Manstead University of Cambridge University of Amsterdam In this article‚ the authors report a secondary analysis on a cross-cultural dataset on gender differences in 6 emotions‚ collected
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better coping skills and self-control. Happier people tend to be more relaxed and laid back and seem to have a better grasp on stress management. Men and women are different when it comes to positive and negative emotions; or so it would seem. Women tend to internalize emotions from a very young age whereas men externalize them. Women tend to think and feel at the same time‚ whereas men never really seem to know what they are thinking or feeling. Men are more likely to shut down emotionally
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