Thursday, 17 November 2016

Emotions

Are your emotions innate or rather a product of the knowledge community you belong too?
Your emotions are a product of the knowledge community you belong to as you are born within a community. For example: if a child performs an action that is wrong, then the parents will imply this by making the child feel ashamed. You can say that it was the way you were nurtured, that results in the emotional responses you have towards something. In general, people use logic to evaluate their decisions but with emotions you use feelings. These feelings are the bi-product of your emotions, meaning that it's more predominate towards your parents as you have more emotional responses. In other words, you have an emotional attachment towards your family, hence when a child does something wrong that their parents disapprove of, they tend to become more emotional than if a teacher told them off.

How do other ways of knowing influence our emotions and vice versa?
Faith (trust) is an influence towards our emotions as you need to have trust in someone to have an emotional attachment to. For example, your parents, you have faith and trust in your parents no matter what happens during your life because they are always there for you. This shows that your emotions will be stronger towards someone if you have trust in them.
Memory has an influence on our emotions because memories bring back the emotions we have experienced during events. For example, at a wedding,  you are likely to make memories on such an important date. And because this day is a sentimental day, people who are connected to the family are going be express their emotions of happiness in regards to the couple. These emotions will stick as memories on the day because it is what was expressed in regards to the bride and groom.

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