One concept I want to share with the class is “Negative Effects of emotion”. Although emotions do help us proceed to make better decisions, sometimes there are emotions that are based on negative stereotypes or anxieties rising from unresolved past experiences. These emotions that block our critical thinking, can lead to bad decisions or deny that there is a problem. For example, there are shows about couples cheating on them with someone else. By watching that show, people can suddenly fear that there significant other is cheating on them without having any evidence or proof that they are actually cheating. This fear can eventually lead to actions that they soon will regret. Feelings play a big part in decision making. Also, if there is a situation at work where you disagree with a customer, you can easily act angry towards them but you might get in trouble with your boss. Sometimes people let their emotions get ahead of themselves and don’t think before they act.
I believe that when making decisions its best to make them soley without emotions. I feel like most of the time emotions do more bad than good. As humans we cant help putting our own fears and feelings in everyhting that we do, and sometimes that hinders us from making sound decisions. and most of the time can get us in a great amount of trouble, more often than not. Humans are impulsive creatures and we do act before we think, its hard to do keep our feelings out of it. Especially women, becuase we tend to put emotions and feelings in pretty much everyhting we do, and thats why it makes us women. I feel like when it comes down to it, when making important critical decisions its just best to leave the emotions behind and save them for another occasion.
ReplyDeleteI understand what you mean because a lot of people use their emotions to make judgments. Its hard to put your emotions aside when making a decision because it natural. These feeling hold you back in deciding from right or wrong. It also makes your decision much more bias therefore you have to put it aside and base your judgments on facts and evidence. Your decision will be more accurate and more reasonable because you have these facts to support your decision. The fact how you said that emotions sometimes act quickly upon you making your decision without thinking. This leads to a more unreasonable decision and in the end it will just hurt themselves. So always make your decisions based on facts and reasoning.
ReplyDeleteI think when it comes to emotions and reasoning we need to evaluate the situation before allowing emotion or eliminating it completely. For example, a situation in which a peer of yours lost a family member, you are hopefully going to let your emotions affect your decision making by not expecting a lot of contribution or just being supportive. On the other hand, a situation where emotion should be disregarded is, for example, when, like you mentioned, false emotions turn into paranoia of a significant other cheating. With conscious moderation, emotion can be extremely beneficial to reasoning, or with lack of knowledge, can be extremely detrimental.
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