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    Our emotions define us as human beings, they determine our mental state and sometimes physiological state. Hamlet’s innermost feelings are revealed through multiple soliloquies throughout the play. In Act II, scene ii Hamlet is in awe after an actor’s moving performance of the murder of Hecuba’s husband. First Player’s short speech impacted Hamlet’s feelings enough for him to conduct a plan to avenge the murder of his father. There is a sense of lack of motivation and a depressed mindset in the beginning

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    Ecstasy Emotion Analysis

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    Another nasty emotion everyone has, but it’s not going anywhere because it’s apart of you. It overcomes you when your crush has someone better looking than you. It takes over when someone has nicer things than you. Your significant other will love this emotion about you because it shows you care and protective of her/him. It may be best to embrace it now because there’s no way you can say you aren’t when it’s obvious to those around you. When I was in elementary school I had a girl in my class

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    Inside Out: Emotions

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    about a girl whose life was guided by five different emotions (joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust) in her head. While Inside Out is a fun and playful movie for people of all ages to watch, it also touches upon many important topics related to psychology, mainly about emotions and their main functions. This paper will elaborate on how some psychologists feel about the movie’s intake on emotions and how accurate the movie represented how emotions work within an individual. Keltner and Ekman (2015)

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    life. Among them the emotions detect a powerful force on humans. Strong emotions may cause people to take actions they might not perform as usual, or obviate situations that they generally enjoy. Psychologists, researchers, and philosophers have proposed a set of different theories that explain how and why people experience the emotions. I have chosen two theories of emotion that I am interested in such as: the James-Lange Theory of Emotion and the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion. This paper describes

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    Emotion is a complex, subjective experience accompanied by biological and behavioral changes. Emotion involves feeling, thinking, activation of the nervous system, physiological changes, and behavioral changes in human’s such as facial expressions. People in different cultures can identify the six basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. The physiological indicators of emotion are similar in people from different cultures. In some researches people who can see and

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    Throughout my life, I have felt a lot of emotions. Most of those emotions were good and some were bad. The one event that stuck out to me when I was overwhelmed with the emotion of fear was when I got into a car accident two summers ago. It was a nice sunny ordinary summer day and we were on our way to breakfast. We were turning left at a green light and somebody t-boned us on the side I was sitting on. When she t-boned us she flipped our car onto our side and we were almost flipped over onto

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    Motivation, Emotion, and Behavior; According to Dictionary.com, motivation is an arousal of an organism that acts toward a desired goal. Emotion is the state of consciousness of what one experiences such as love, hate, happy and sad. Behavior is an action or reaction under certain circumstances. The relationship between the three is feelings that one receives under each. For instance, a cold rainy day, on such a day, one’s motivation may be to lie around all day and possibly not change out of

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    According to the functionalist perspective on emotions, emotions are defined as an attempt by the individual to establish, maintain, change, or terminate the relation between the environment and the individual (Frijda, 1986). This approach is intrinsically relational and suggests that one cannot understand emotion without considering the individual within any given context. Thus, emotions are conceptualized as being flexible, contextually bound, and goal directed, and are critical for guiding interpersonal

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    Incorporation of Emotions in the Workplace It is a general understanding that emotions and the workplace do not go along. Nonetheless, emotions are an imminent part of who we are as humans, and emotions are present in influencing our everyday activities and decisions. This makes it highly unlikely and utopic to believe that emotions will not be part of our workplace. The true issue is how to cope with it and how much is in fact too much. Anne Kreamer is a former high executive at Nickelodeon who

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    Metaphor and the Expressions of Emotion Introduction: In May 2015, Walt Disney Pictures released the film Inside Out. The film emphasizes the neuropsychological finding that human emotions affect interpersonal relationships. It shows how emotions work inside a person’s brain and at the same time how these emotions shape a person’s outer life (Keltner & Ekman, 2015). In this film, each character is represented by a colour With is conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980) can be applied

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