Emotions and culture

foreign relations the previous decade. During this time, popular culture pushed the boundaries with its new genre of rock and roll. However, some “Cultural Guardians” (Bertrand 127) it chose to disagree citing that it was a mere coincidence of the times or argued that there is a distinct difference between kitsch and…

In the article, "Henry Rodriguez: Preserving the Luiseño Tradition," Rodriguez talks about how oral tradition keep stories "alive and changing over time." Just for example, Rodriguez mentions a story about a "powerful song given" to him by an old man, and it was later on collected as "sets," as more elderly men are willing to share their songs. As a result, it created a bigger content of songs, having a far more interpretation of a subject. Just like in oral tradition, stories accumulate, it…

relegated to the class of nonessential characteristics.” Fukuyama also states that we make decisions ourselves based on our friends, work, or our loved ones. Humans are not humans based on physical appearances but how they react to certain events and the emotions they shows towards it. Emotional intelligence like respect and dignity, the feelings being shown to other people determines if the person is…

their Environmental determinants, Culture, Social Class, and Family. In environmental determinants, it plays a critical role in the development of our personalities. If we did not grow up in a society with a different kinds of people having a different kinds of personality we would not even “ persons “ in the way in which that term commonly is understood. And we cannot explore the world if we just let ourselves stay in the same place throughout our life. Our culture also contributes to our…

individual. Unmasking the Face demonstrates how to read emotions based on facial marks made by movement of the face. Dr. Ekman answers common confusions about certain emotions such as the difference between surprise and fear. His two focuses of the book are: describing the experience of the emotion and the basis of the emotion to understand why you made that facial expression and understand others’ feelings. Being able to spot your emotion help you learn what your facial muscles are instructing…

BESC1490 Introduction to Psychology Week 7 Motivation and Emotion 1. Motivation is the driving force that initiates, goal maintenance and guide processes behind behaviours. There are five types of perspectives on motivation. Psychodynamic perspective distinguishes the personality between conscious and unconscious motives. Behaviourist perspective suggests that reinforcement of behaviours gives motivation whereas punished behaviours are avoided. Cognitive perspective proposes that goal…

In the 21st century, an emotion display is showing an important characteristic in the workplace, especially for the service based organisation such as insurance, airline and restaurant. This is because the market of service based organisation has become bigger and competitive compared to others. ‘Service with a smile’ is a one trade route for the service based organisation to enhance the customer satisfaction and with ‘smile’ can reveal about contemporary attitudes to emotion in the workplace.…

that Ibrahim is in phase three. To assist the client in moving into a more stable environment and regulated emotions, it is important to develop a plan of treatment with tangible interventions. Phase three, suggest that the client is in an enduring phase. It would be important to start the initial treatment in this phase to ensure the client “development of skills necessary to manage emotions and the establishment of a safe social environment” (Saxe et al., p. 126). It is important for not…

the significance of oral tradition in the Pueblo community. Silko begins her written speech by saying, “The words most highly valued are those spoken from the heart, unpremeditated and unrehearsed,” (467). Storytelling lies at the heart of Pueblo culture, for it brings their heritage together no matter the time or distance (Silko 470, 479). Pueblo oral tradition differentiates from English writing; oral tradition challenges academic writing. Silko’s written speech uses a number of Pueblo…

Music has been a big part of the human race’s culture. Music dates back as far as 250,000 years, and has been known for being all over the world. With the grand variety of music selection, each song has a different way of being perceived; for countless years psychologist have been trying to connection music with ones emotions. Music has been reported to induce a full range of human emotions. So how is it that organized sound and beats evoke such an emotion in a way that is in capable from any…