Christmas Message
This is my Christmas message from Christmas 2021 with my cat Spring as I briefly described my book Emotions Don’t Think.
Podcast from 2022 Conference
This podcast is from the 2022 Ontario Library Association Conference where my publisher Tina Crossfield and others from Crossfield Publishing talked with me about my book Emotions Don’t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil.
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Podcast from 2022 Book Expo
This is a podcast of me describing my book Emotions Don’t Think and its related content on emotional contagion in society and politics at the Ottawa Book Expo last September, 2022. The interviewer on this occasion as chosen by the Book Expo folks was Ursula Uranie.
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Being Woke or Being Asleep
The term “woke” is used regularly now in the U.S. and Canada. What does it mean and what does it imply? There is certainly much emotion embedded in the term. The quote was made in the Washington Post[1] that the word “woke” is “a slang term for … progressive activism,” according to Taryn Fenske, Florida
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Political Violence and Emotion
There appears to be more political violence lately. These days, the U.S. President, Mr. Biden, has conveyed concerns that there will be political violence. The speaker’s husband has been attacked in his home. Conspiracy-influenced poll watchers are wearing tactical gear and staking out ballot drop boxes, for fear of election fraud. Many experts are worried
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Emotions and Populism
Mistaken as purely a sociological movement, populism’s roots are truly emotional. It is the emotionality in a large segment of the population that drives people to join the populist movement. The emotionality is triggered off by a cause or a perception related to a larger social issue, as the segment sees it. This is often
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FREEDOM
The topic of freedom brings up a lot of emotion in people. People often protest about losing their freedom in the current hyper-emotional atmosphere in our democracies. It has become an emotional issue spread amongst some groups by emotional contagion, which spreads toxic emotions like a disease. We like to be free. It is one
Pandemic of Emotions
We are living in an emotional pandemic and have been for a number of years. This means there is a pandemic of emotions. Anxiety and depression are on the rise. It is seen in the world around us, although very few see this connection between society’s trends and the consequential rise in anxiety and depression.
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Lowering Divisiveness
Do you want to lower divisiveness? Did you ever notice in the current psychological climate that the word “anti-” is popular and in common usage? The use of the word “anti” automatically brings in so much implicit emotion when we use it or hear it, that there is no time for thought. We can have
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Unconsciously Absorbing Contagious Emotions
Emotions, or a more general affect component, can emanate from other people even without their purposely or openly expressing emotion. It is as if they radiate this component automatically as a type of energy that just seems to radiate outward from their body even if they are quiet or still. There is actually movement in
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