Various hot topic areas in society and how emotional contagion influences the discourse on them
There is what appears to be a constant crisis mode in the U.S., a mode which automatically puts emotions front and centre on an ongoing basis. This is usually not recognized because emotions are invisible. But this is continual trauma. The intensity about the ongoing political situation is perpetually climbing in the ongoing political and […]
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
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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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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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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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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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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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
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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