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,
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I am inviting everyone to Stop the Spread of Negative Contagious Emotions. Almost every day we see the spread of these negative contagious emotions in the news. For example, this is new in the news this afternoon: Chinese Fighter Jet Confronts US Navy Plane with CNN Crew Aboard as Tensions Simmer in South China Sea.
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Implicit emotions can become contagious, meaning they can be easily spread and absorbed by others. The others are infected by the emotion they have absorbed, often without realizing it. Some of these people may then tend to spread it further, spreading contagious emotions. We need to stop the spread. These emotions are expressed implicitly but
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This link below takes us to Arash’s World Podcast where Arash Farzaneh has posted his version of my podcast with him (the podcast is also available here on my blog) where he combines Clickbait and Fast Thinking. This is a good combination. There is no doubt that Clickbait is a result of fast thinking, and
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This podcast is with myself discussing my book Emotions Don’t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil with Jonathan Douglas of the Ontario Psychological Association in an ONPsych audio podcast earlier in 2022.
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This podcast is 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. We need to stop the spread of negative emotional contagion.
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This is my Christmas message from Christmas 2021 with my cat Spring as I briefly described my book Emotions Don’t Think.