In chapter 7, it talks about emotion and communication, and
one of the perspectives of emotion that made the most sense to me was
perceptual influences on emotion which emphasizes on the facts that emotion has
no meaning, only to the degree of significance we attach to it. The perceptual
influences on emotion deals on how we label a particular event around us and have
a lot to do with the way we react to things we encounter in our external part
of self. For example, anger can be viewed as being positive or negative,
depending on the way we perceive the situation and how we label it to react. Negative
anger can lead to increased
blood pressure, and also makes it difficult to think straight, and it can harm
your physical and mental health. Many instances, people are disturbed, not
based on what the situation might be, but how they label it to be.
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