by Evan Dwan | Aug 5, 2021 | News |
Leslie Greenberg writes that we inherit emotional responses like fear of the dark, but on top of this, we learn to associate particular emotions with experiences which become emotional memories. These memories are organisations of lived emotional experiences that are...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 28, 2021 | News |
Joseph LeDoux highlighted the importance of the amygdala in determining the emotional significance of situations. LeDoux describes two emotional response systems in the brain. The first, originates in the amygdala, is the ‘quick and dirty’ system. Responses here...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 28, 2021 | News |
Emotion theory makes the claim the emotion is adaptive in nature. It helps us to process complex information from the environment quickly in order to help us take action that helps us meet our needs. Emotions give information about the significance of a situation to...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 7, 2020 | News |
Odysseus and his men sailed across the unknown, empty sea. As they travelled the nights became shorter and the days longer until they arrived in a land where night no longer existed. There was no time for sleep or rest, just the doing of an eternal day. This was the...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 29, 2020 | News |
An old myth tells the story of a time when ‘care’ was crossing a river and she saw some clay. She picked it up, and slowly began to shape it. While contemplating the beauty of what she had made, Jupiter came by and ‘care’ asked him to give it spirit, which he gladly...
