What are emotions good for?

There are advantages to having emotions. Without emotions, we would react spontaneously and robotically to events around us. With emotions, situations have meaning, there is a lull as new information is assessed and evaluated in relation to our past experiences, our ambitions and desires. Emotions are crucial to learning and memory: positive emotions motivate us toward rewarding situations and resources, negative emotions avert us from harm and distress. Emotions also prepare our bodies internally for the action we need to take to maintain our goals and desires. Facing a mugger with a knife, fear sends blood rushing to our limbs in preparation for taking flight. On stage, addressing a crowd, adrenaline races through our veins enhancing our performance and speeding our thoughts.
Emotions also serve a social function. Our facial expression, our tone of voice, even our body language, convey to others something of what we are thinking and feeling. In the case of your job offer, the delight and enthusiasm in your voice will hopefully signal to your new employer that they’ve made the right choice. Spend a few minutes at an airport arrivals lounge and you’ll see emotional communication begins long before words are uttered, as eyebrows are raised and smiles shared in a visible display of welcoming. Indeed, around the world, across cultures there is remarkable consistency in the facial expressions associated with certain feelings like happiness, fear and anger. Again, in the presence of threat, the urgency of these signals is magnified – a look of terror warns others, a shrill scream deters the enemy.

GROUPWORK

Many groups of approximately 5 students each. In each group two or three students drive the project, do the bulk of the work (80%) and the others are effectively passengers and take care of the remaining 20% of the work.Those who contributes 20% always get more marks than the ones contributing 80% at the end of the day.
Did you experience the same thing in your groupwork environment?

EMOTIONS

So an emotion is a series of synchronised, interconnected changes in our thoughts and in the state of our body, preparing us, affecting how we feel, and the way we appear, from the look on our face to the sound of our voice. And this all occurs in light of what a new situation means to us, based on our past experiences, the social context, our goals and desires. But if that’s what an emotion is, just how many emotions are there?

CLEVER MIND

Animals posses sight and auditory abilities, but lack langauge, nevertheless, they are capable of thought. Granted, the development of language is often used as a gauge of mental aptitude in humans." langauge competence is intimately tied to, or maybe even definitive of, our concept of human mentality. However, while language is an assest which enables people to conceptualize their world, it is by no means a necessity. This is demonstrated by the ability of physically handicapped person( e.g. deaf) and mentally handicapped person (e.g. victims of celebral palsy to communicate using symbols. It is also demonstrated by the reliance on kinesis, body langauge, in young children. Numerous studies attest to the ability of apes and baboons to communicate using symbols and body language.
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Exams are around the corner

Exams are a time when stress levels are higher than usual. Stress can be positive, helping you to stay motivated and focused. However, too much stress can be unhelpful - it can make you feel overwhelmed, confused, exhausted and edgy. It's important to try and keep things in perspective and find ways of reducing stress if things seem to be getting on top of you.

What tips would you suggest for exams readiness?

Are poor people lazy?

Many people jumped to the conclusion that “poor people are lazy,” which is an extremely broad brush, but a fairly reasonable one. After all, if the difference between high incomes and low incomes is a handful of personal choices and actions, the people not taking them – the people with low incomes – must be lazy, right?