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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Perspectives on Emotions

A few different perspectives on emotions are discussed in the book, including the organismic view, perceptual view, cognitive view, and interactive view. The perspective that makes the most sense to me would be the interactive view of emotions. I feel like this perspective takes into account more outside factors that affect us compared to the other perspectives. There are three key concepts in the interactive view of emotions. Framing rules are guidelines determined by one’s culture that help define the emotional meanings of events and situations. Feeling rules are also culturally based, and tell us how we should feel in certain situations. Emotion work is the effort that we put in to convince ourselves to feel the way our culture deems appropriate and to not feel how our culture deems inappropriate. These three concepts that make up this perspective make the most sense to me because I feel like the culture we live in is the basis of what influences our feelings. Our culture has a strong impact on how we live our day to day lives, and as a result it influences our thoughts and feelings. The other perspectives only consider stimuli or events, whereas this perspective takes it even deeper to the root of where we learn to interpret the stimuli or events.

1 comment:

unchienandalou said...

I also agree that this is probably the perspective that influences what we do the most. The way we are brought up determines the type of person we will be as an adult. The saying says that, 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks'. I think this quote has something to do with how culture influences the way we behave. It's something that is so embedded in us that it's difficult to change. If we are aware of these influences it could help in the way we communicate with other people. This may be part of what emotion work is all about.

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