basic emotions- Category analysis of emotion words Category analysis of emotion words is theory used to describe emotions; the study explains that words have been created to describe our emotions based on emotional experiences. Certain words such as love or hate can give you a distinct feeling depending on the situation. Johnson-Laird and Oatley conducted a large analysis of 590 English words that we use to express emotion verbally and found that there are numerous ways that our emotions can be
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Persuasive Speech: Genetically Modified Food We all enjoy a cold glass of milk with homemade cookies‚ a refreshing pop on a hot summer day‚ and a juicy cob of corn in the summer months. But‚ do we ever wonder what is really in our food? Because genetically modified foods do not have to be labeled‚ you will likely never know if the food you are consuming is genetically modified. As a fellow member of the Organic Consumers Association‚ I am eager to inform you of why genetically modified food is
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Zoos Necessary or Not? We humans have the ability to pass down crucial information to the next generation through zoological parks‚ or zoos. In early civilizations‚ animals were locked up in cages for people ’s amusement. The welfare of the animals was poor because people were indifferent to the needs of the animals. According to The Times of India‚ the first public zoo can be traced back to Egypt in 1500 B.C. under Queen Hatshepsut who collected animals from all over Africa to show her wealth and
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The article “Why We Travel” by Pico Iyer talks about his opinion on why people travel to foreign places and what they expect to gain from their trips. He also mentions a few of his past experiences and his feelings and emotions based on them. Based on this article‚ we are able extract that traveling is not just the matter of going somewhere other than your home and coming back the same person. It is somehow a little more than that as it affects us in ways unexplainable. An interesting point brought
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Theories of emotion The James-Lange Theory American Psychologist William James and the Danish Psychologist Carl Lange. James-Lange theory holds that physiological response give rise to our cognitive experience of emotion. Our body responds to a perception of an event before we experience the emotion. James-Lange Theory: 1. Event 2. Arousal 3. Emotion Example: The dog is growling; My muscles tense; My heart races; I feel afraid. The Cannon-Bard Thalamic Theory Walter Cannon a psychologist
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Simple‚ natural‚ and affectionate. These kind words don’t seem to describe the face of a killer‚ but this would be proven wrong as the character of Dorian Gray would end up living a violent and scandalous life. Scenes of violence not only make a work of literary merit all the more interesting‚ but they give the characters of the novel a new dimension to the readers that can’t always be seen by other characters as illustrated in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian’s first scene of violence
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began transforming into a better student‚ which made me wonder why I wanted to become a better student. Students should become better in their studies to achieve higher self-esteem about themselves and their education‚ to help themselves financially‚ and to challenge themselves to become critical thinkers‚ creative individuals‚ better problem solvers‚ and hard workers to prepare themselves for the future. Wondering and figuring out why I wanted to become a better student continued me on my path of
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from this emotion. Sadly‚ this emotion causes many many problems especially when power is involved. We see this happening today and even in Julius Caesar’s time. In fact‚ an expression of that emotion is exactly what caused his death. William Shakespeare did a phenomenal job displaying this emotion when he wrote the play‚ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. In his play‚ Shakespeare wrote how our emotions can lead us to misinterpret situations that causes us to act mistakenly act. This emotion and misinterpretations
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Emotions in the Workplace Alan-Michael Saltis Southern New Hampshire University OL 500 Human Behavior in Organization Professor Sue Golabek Emotions in the Workplace Poor management leads to ineffective productivity. There are a number of factors that make this statement true. One factor that most may not think about is how emotions have a role on employee behavior at work. It is important to understand the relationship that emotions can have on moods. While emotions may be cause
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Cursive is something I hated from the day I first learned it in the fourth grade. It seemed like a complete waste of time and I thought there was no point to it. The teacher used to come up to me and tell me that I needed to work on Z since it was the first letter in my name and as such that was the only letter I ever really worked on. This resulted in my undermining of the other letters which made my cursive basically scribbles. So I was praising the day that we would no longer have to write
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