Essays on Emotions

Obsession with smartphones and the social media can greatly affect stress levels and one’s relationships. Roberts (2016) argues that behavioral and substance addictions to social media can be categorized into six groups namely; tolerance, salience, conflict, euphoria, relapse and withdrawal symptoms. According to Dallas (2016), internet addiction is linked to mental...

Some of the fundamental values and beliefs of positive psychology include: First, gratitude is one of the values which contributes to happiness in life. Positive psychology beliefs and focuses on enhancing happiness and therefore, the more one s cultivates gratitude, the more happily the people will be. Another belief is that happiness...

Having none or fewer symptoms and being back to how your life was before without the illness is clinical recovery. Personal healing is a unique, deeply personal process of transforming one’s values, attitudes, skills, goals, and roles to better ones. Individual recovery is living a contributing, satisfying, and hopeful life...

Both pro-social and antisocial behaviors are voluntary actions, but the former is intended to benefit another person or group of people, while the latter seeks to harm or disadvantage another individual or group (Hyde, Shaw, " Moilanen, 2010). This discussion describes prosocial and antisocial behaviors depicted in two advertisements and...

In sports, there are several factors that can affect a player’s ability to perform at their optimal level. Most of these factors can be controlled but some cannot. For further discussion, we will consider some factors that can potentially relate to the kind of performance an athlete can deliver. These...

According to Bradberry (2009), emotional intelligence is the skill and capacity to construe other people’s emotions, as well as being able to read and understand them appropriately. The sole purpose of emotional intelligence is to enable people to acknowledge their emotions and those of other individuals. Furthermore, the four main...

The Concept of Coaching Adolescents The concept of coaching adolescents is not new to me because I too received coaching during that stage of my life. What strikes me the most from the readings is the idea that the emotional health of children affects their character. A child’s emotional stability affects...

In the chapter, Happiness and Immorality, Cahn and Murphy bring forth arguments that explain the happy immoralist and the unhappy immoralist respectively. In particular, Cahn presents a fictitious persona whose primary objectives include gaining fame, reputation, and wealth. However, the person employs dishonest tactics which are immoral in his pursuit...

In my society, people believe in the "Five Stages of Grief" myth In my society, people believe that before someone dies, there are various psychological stages that one has to go through. These stages are referred to as "the five stages of grief". This entails the emotional state that is experienced...

People react differently to the losing their loved ones, but one thing is evident across the different segments of populations, others appear upset, others do not. Grief and loss are dependent on individual personality, age, how they react to stress, gender, stage of development, nature of the relationship and previous...

In my own opinion, to really “know” something means to have knowledge regarding a particular thing/ issue.  We “know” things when we are less or more assured that it is true depending on the proof of our thoughts or senses processes. For instance, On the other hand, knowledge is an...

In “The Subjectivity of Values”, Mackie makes a case in favor of an error theory concerning objective morality. According to him, moral judgments essentially presuppose moral objectivity (Mackie 12). The essayist argues that moral objectivity necessitates two elements: the ability to unconditionally inspire people to act, and an intrinsic reason-giving...