Heads Up Psychology by Marcus Weeks

Author:Marcus Weeks [Weeks, Marcus]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781465455475
Publisher: DK Publishing
Published: 2016-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Our experiences can make us happy, sad, frightened, or angry. Different emotions affect the way that we think, and can even prompt a physical reaction. We have little conscious control over our emotional reactions, and often they are so powerful that it’s difficult to hide them or control our behavior.

Feeling emotional?

Traditionally, it was believed that we learn emotions from the people around us as we grow up, and that emotional responses differ from culture to culture. One of the first to challenge this idea was Charles Darwin, who argued that behavior and physical reactions, such as facial expressions, are associated with the same emotions in all races and cultures. Psychologists later confirmed this theory, but also found that emotions are involuntary—we have no conscious control over them. Dutch psychologist Nico Frijda explained that our emotions are natural reactions that prepare us to deal with life experiences. These involuntary responses are not only felt internally, but also involve spontaneous physical reactions—including laughter, crying, or blushing, as well as facial expressions—which show others our emotions. But Frijda argued that we also have conscious feelings, which come from thinking about our emotions. Unlike emotions, we can control these feelings and hide them from other people.

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