This podcast is my second podcast with Arash Farzaneh of Arash’s World interviewing me about my book Emotions Don’t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil and the related concepts of emotional contagion in politics and society. This is an audio podcast for now. The first podcast is still available on this blog. We […]
Podcast with Arash Farzaneh March 2023 Read More »
Often there are articles in the news, sometimes tragedies, which involve emotions, although there is no mention of emotions in the article. This is because emotions are invisible and the journalists do not report on what they do not see, or do not have proof of. So, people do not often think of how emotions
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I am posting more on the phenomenon of mass shootings stemming from mass shootings recently. Please also visit my previous posts on Guns and Their Triggers as well as Guns, Shootings and Shooters for more on this topic. I have predicted that they will keep on occurring and sadly I have been proven to be
Stop the Spread of Negative Emotional Contagion! Emotions flow through society! Did you ever notice how emotions flow through society from person to person, from group to group, because of the effects of emotional contagion? Emotions have run high in the past few years. They provide the fuel for most controversies that hit the news.
Thinking is necessary to run a democracy, to vote, and for elected officials to make decisions. Somehow, however, emotions have taken over in some western democracies, among the populace and even among the officials. Emotions have seemed to take a leading role in directing the path of proceedings of society, but because emotions don’t think,
How Emotional Thinking Fails Read More »