Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology. Dr Aureli‚ (pictured opposite) presented his research at this year’s BA Festival of Science in Dublin‚ has found that our furry relatives may share many of the same emotions that humans experience in everyday life. He explained: ’’My research has shown that emotion is a valid topic for scientific investigation in animals and helps us to understand how animals behave with great flexibility. For example self directed behaviours‚ such as scratch-grooming‚ obviously
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“Pursuit of knowledge results to dangerous emotions” We humans don’t realize the conditions that knowledge can bring if not responsibly used. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ education played a major part in the story. She explains that gaining too much knowledge can be a downfall. A perfect example is Victor‚ who is fascinated by the mysteries of the nature. He keeps himself away from his social life and puts all of his time to his education. He proves that gaining a lot of knowledge made
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in materialistic thought. Idealists during his time believed that there reality is made up of concepts and nonmatter. In response to the challenge of explaining concepts that seemed only explicable through idealist thinking (such as thoughts and emotions)‚ Hobbes used logic and reasoning to develop materialist theories – some impressively similar in nature to neurobiology. His pessimistic views of society are drawn from events in his personal life‚ primarily the English Civil War. During this time
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TOK essay LANGUAGE: To what extent can language shape our beliefs? Maja Pivk‚ 3.h In my essay for TOK I will deal with an issue regarding language. We think and express our mind using language. But does the language affect our ability of perceiving things? Would we be able to think the same way if we wouldn’t speak any language‚ like animals? Do other cultures‚ which use other languages perceive world in a different way than us? Those are the main questions with which I will deal in my
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Feelings and emotions play a major role in assessing and evaluating whatever happens in our lives. The very ability to feel normally arises as a response to the environment and our own actions. It helps us to judge whether something is safe‚ pleasant‚ fair‚ or desirable. Some people might view feelings as unnecessary – they keep changing‚ often very quickly. You will only feel happy until something saddening arises. And you will stay angry until something comforting and soothing comes to your life
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When the every day reader takes a look into a book its the ardent features that grab them and entice them into reading the rest. In "Black Cat" Edgar Allen Poe explores indredulous emotion. Poe often uses the work of strong words to entisify parts of the story. As Edgar Allen Poe proceeds through the murder he gives out to his wife‚ she proves herself in the front of the cat‚ saving its life. Poe’s words irrevokebly changes the way his writing makes the reader feel. "Goaded by the interference into
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In the modern world‚ emotions play such a large role in almost everything people do‚ it is hard to make a decision which will get the most desirable results. It is true‚ however it is looked upon‚ that decisions and choices are mainly made by the emotion that the person is feeling towards the topic. A kind person will go join the Peace Corps and help aide the poor and starving‚ while a person with no pity towards much of anything will not care enough to do something of that nature. Pity is one of
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Abstract Anger is often a difficult emotion to express and understand and it has come to be recognized as a significant social problem that our society facing today. This paper discusses the efficacy of the Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and the Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) for treating patient with anger problems and compared therapists’ view on emotion which how they see emotion as the prime mover in human experience in different ways respectively. Besides‚ the development‚ overview and the
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In this essay‚ I will attempt to explain why Sartre argues that emotions are transformations of the world in his book‚ “A sketch for the Theory of the Emotions”. According to Sartre‚ an emotion is a response to a situation‚ an interaction with the world. Emotions control the way we act under certain circumstances and in certain situations‚ which is our behaviour‚ and we feel like we have no control. However‚ although we blame our behaviour on our emotions (“I hit that man because I was angry”) Sartre
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Emotions can be revealed through all types of literature such as in the novel The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the poem To The Virgins‚ To Make Much of Time‚ by Robert Herrick and in the short story The Yellow Wallpaper‚ by Charlotte Gilman. The most powerful way to connect with an audience is through the characters’ emotions. An emotional connection is created when a reader formulates a conclusion about the characters‚ allowing the interaction to become deep and meaningful. Therefore‚
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