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Blog 7: Psychology

Positive Psychology

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The effects, benefits, results, and story of Smiling.


-Smiling is a very famous, popular, and effective way to spread feelings.
-Smiling to a person gives that person the same feeling you have. For example, we've all had a "stare contest" with one of our friends. And as always, one ends up smiling and also making the other person smile and laugh.
-A test was done with pictures of people who had constant, wide-open smiles, and people with small or no smiles. The results were finding the life-span of all these people. It was concluded that the people who smiled more, lived an average of 7 years longer. This may just be a coincidence, myth, or hoax, but its not just the physical property of smiling, its the feelings behind it that give your life happiness.
-Children can smile up to 400 times per day, and they lead the charts.
-30% of adults smile more than 20 times per day.
-14% smile less than 5 times per day.
-Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden show that it is harder to frown at a smiling face, and that if you look at someone smiling, you are compelled to smile.
-Smiling doesn't just effect you, it also effects people around you. It gives you a more happy, genuine, and courteous look.

January 12th, 2012.

Susan Clark

The Author states every source from studies from universities or tests.

Blog Post 6

1. I have learned that my person, Hemang Srikishan, has studied Psychology, Spanish, Hindi, and academic education. Currently, he is a middle school teacher who teaches math for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.

2. I believe he is a reliable source because he has studied Psychology. This is the main subject that I am currently learning about and he seems to know what he is talking about from the questions he has answered.

3. I interviewed my person on April 26th at around 12 pm. I sent him an email with all my questions and he answered them fully based on opinions or facts.

These are the questions and answers that we discussed.

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1. Do you think the environment of a person is the main reason of how people act? For example, if a boy grew up in a rough neighborhood, he would have rough qualities and act violent, right? Do you think the environment he grew up in is the main reason why he is a violent boy?

This is a big question in psychology that is broadly called the "Nature vs. Nurture Debate."  People argue that it is nature that makes people act the way they do- that it is their genetic make up and something about the biological make up of a person that makes them act the way they do.  On the other side are the Nurture members.  They say that the way people turn out is exactly how people raise him/her to be.  Some of them go as far as to say that they can make any child into any professional that you ask them to as long as you let them raise the child from birth.

 

Nowadays though, it is largely accepted that it is not just Nature or Nurture that is involved- it is a blend of the two.  So with you example, I think that a boy that grows up in a dangerous neighborhood might be 'predisposed' (which means that he might be more likely) to be violent because he sees lots of violence and his family might also be involved in violence- so in a sense he might grow up thinking that violence is normal.  However, the boy might also be genetically predisposed (their genes might actually make them more likely) to be violent or take pleasure in violence.  It is really a mix of the two things rather than just one. 

 

2. Do you think the "spread of feelings" is possible? I read this in a psychology book. For example, if a man walks on a bus and the bus driver greets him happily with a "hello," and the man does not say anything because he was not yet "happy." But when the man walks off the bus, the bus driver again says goodbye in a happy way, and the man responds happily with a goodbye. The bus driver sort of made the man happy and put him in a positive mood. Imagine all of the people that go on and off the bus, they could all become positive and spread the happiness throughout the entire city. I believe this is possible because in real terms, if I were to greet you, for example, with a negative attitude, you would also act negative towards me and others because I put you in that bad mood. Do you think this is possible?

I really believe that this is possible and I love the fact that it is possible. This is opinion, but I absolutely believe that we can greatly influence others by how we act towards them.  By acting with courtesy to others we certainly get courtesy back (at least most of the time).  I'm a little less sure that the courtesy spreads beyond the 2 people that are in the interaction.  I think it does at times but at other times it ends there.

3. Are there any other ways feelings could be spread through people besides actions, words, and attitude?

 I think actions, words, and attitude are the main ways that feelings are spread through people.  Since these are the ways people communicate with each other, they are the ways that any type of feeling spreads.

4. Do you think the school life of a boy or girl could be a reason of why they act positive or negative? If the boy is popular, or if the boy is bullied.

Yes, absolutely.  School is an important time and if someone is bullied in school it can make him/her avoid school at any cost.  At the same time, if schools are really positive and make a student feel successful, they can get kids to come back day after day even when the student might have a lot of difficulty in his/her life.  That being said, I think a student can also be resilient against negative forces in school or any part of life.  Your environment could influence your behavior, but it is not necessarily the only thing that plays a part and plenty of people in really poor and oppressive environments can succeed beyond our imagination.  The human body and mind are really quite amazing.

Emotional Intelligence #5

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman


- "Anyone can be angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time,    for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy."

Aristotle's Challenge


-Spreading virus of good feeling.
-Bus driver gives a friendly hello and goodbye, it spreads happiness to everyone who got on and off the bus.
-The author says this bus driver could bring happiness to the whole city. If you think about it, him being nice to a bus load of people who become happy when they get off will have those people spread their happiness to other people, just like a virus.
-A boy goes on a rampage at school, pouring paint everywhere in the class and all over the cars. His reason was because he was called a baby by his classmates, and he wanted to impress them.
-"Have a nice day," to "Make my day."
-Words do have an effect on people. Positive and negative attitude spreads, and words can mean a lot.

In this book, Daniel Goleman explains that happiness and positive attitudes can spread, like a virus. One example that supports his main idea is the boy calling the other boy a baby. Negative attitude can cause people to act differently and make them do things they don't want to do, but they have to do it to deny the negative attitude. Another example that supports his main idea is the thought of happiness and sadness being a virus. The author gives a good point when he says the passengers getting on the bus were sort of confused when the bus driver greeted them nicely, but when they got off, they all responded happily with a goodbye. This supports the main idea of spreading the good feeling and making your positive attitudes reflect on others. These ideas are similar to a real, deadly virus because it also spreads things, and it won't stop until something good has happened.

Emotions

Several different emotions.

Link to website:  http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-human-emotions.html

"List of Human Emotions."

- There are many basic human emotions, as well as advanced human emotions.
- There can be a main emotion with sub emotions. For example,

-Fear 

-Anxiety
-Apprehension
-Distress
-Dread
-Tenseness
-Uneasiness
-Worry

There are many different emotions, some good and some bad. Certain events trigger off certain emotions. If your pet died, you would be feeling negative, sad, or maybe angry emotions. If you just won a car, you would be feeling positive and happy emotions. Everyone can feel these emotions, but you share them in different ways. Some people might scream, while others stay quiet and hold in those feelings.