Emotion

the job to hold all the memories of his community. In my opinion, having one person carry every memory in a community will not make the community happier. This job will also make the person selected unhappy. If people are not able to develop true emotions, then they would not be able to connect with others, and develop close relationships. This system effectively sacrifices one person just to make the community more productive. The single person that holds all the memories would be lonely,…

Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Phillip K. Dick. Dick writes about empathy several times throughout the novel and how both humans and androids express it. In the novel the new Nexus 6 model androids have the ability to vividly express human emotion. Before the nexus 6 model androids, the biggest difference between humans and androids was the ability to care for another living being. Are these new Nexus 6 androids capable of learning and expressing empathy, if so, is it any different than…

to obey and be weary though our emotions learned as young children? Though research individuals have been able to unveil the truth about learning and emotions and how they are connected. As look though the research we will find that we in fact do learn from our emotions though out the course of life. This field of research had been around for many years and we shall start out on what made myself look in to the research a little bit more. Robert Nozicks, Emotions,…

At first glance, the protagonist of this film can be mistaken for Riley the girl who has five small personas living in her brain and controlling her emotions. Although she is crucial to the narrative form, Joy’s conflicts and goals are what makes this story move forward. Joy is just one of the five basic emotions living in Riley’s brain, and she seems to have the biggest role when it comes to keeping Riley’s happy childhood memories or “core” memories safe in the hub. Joy’s main goal is to keep…

reason about emotions and emotional information, and of emotions to enhance thought.” (Mayer, 2009) These assessments should allow for an internal view of my interactions, how people interact with me and find what I can improve.…

When writing a poem a poet can twist a subject into whatever perspective they see fit. While Kilee Greethurst wrote her poems based on her experiences she opened up her thoughts and feelings to give the readers a wall of emotion and imagery. In order to portray these feelings of happiness and romance, she used the concept of bliss as her overall theme. All of Greethurst’s poems revolve around the idea of a blissful state of mind, creating a theme of happiness and love. Throughout…

to better understand the moon and sun analogy, imagine this. Two items are placed on a balance labeled, ‘Human Emotion’. Those two weighted items are each labeled ‘Sadness’ and ‘Happiness’. The scale begins to wildly tip back and forth, never coming to a perfectly even rest. As Happiness becomes more influential, it steals away the weight from Sadness and makes itself the dominant emotion. However, soon enough, Sadness takes over, becoming a main focus. This exchange happens on a regular basis,…

social comparison process. Information that supports a problem Facebook has become the most popular social media platform worldwide. Multiple evidences demonstrated that individuals who were exposed to superior profile pictures showed fewer positive emotions and were less satisfied with their own bodies. Additionally, there are also studies that revealed the negative effects of Facebook usage on the users well-being. The…

Projective identification is when a person project their negative emotions into someone else. However, I believe it can also be positive emotions as well. When a person is not happy with themselves, they tend to makes others unhappy by projecting on them. On the other hand, there are professionals that project positive emotions on to others. For example, as a therapist I found myself projecting hope unto my clients to minimize whatever it is that they are experiencing. The same thing can apply…

‘Inside Out’ was an adorable movie, that teaches children about emotions, but it does it in a very cute and different way. In the article, ‘The Science of ‘Inside Out’’, the author points out that the movie helps understand emotions, and that emotions help organize rational thinking and our social lives. In the article it states that “…emotions guide our perceptions of the world, our memories of the past and even our moral judgments of right and wrong…” and that the movie did show that, in a way…