Emotion, Gender and Culture

               

Emotion and Gender                     

There is recent research shows that different between men and women. There are 55 cultures demonstrated that women tend to be more emotional, agreeable, extroverted, and conscientious than men. Women read other people's emotional reactions better than men, they receive emotional from verbally or visually. Women reported experiencing love and anger much more intensely than men did in another assessment of gender differences in emotional response. Those women also smiled more when recalling memories of happiness or love. Lastly, men and women respond to stress in different ways. Women display greater sadness or anxiety than men.


Emotion and Culture
There are two studies of research, participants viewed group photographs comprising one central and four background figures. Researchers influenced the facial emotions and asked participants to determine the dominant emotion of the central figure. The study found that 72 percent of Japanese participants reported that their judgement was influenced by emotions displayed by all the figures in the group, while a similar percentage of North Americans reported not being influenced by the background figures at all.

Emotion

The word emotion includes a wide range of visible behavior, expressed feelings, and changes in the body state. We are experiencing the emotion and we can feel the emotions. Emotions are very complex to express them; we use a variety of terms, besides gestures and attitudes. The words are limited to express the feeling. Therefore, the words to describe emotions are quite condensed, so emotion allows people to share them.

If we do not have emotions, we would lose all the charm of living. Even dogs and cats have emotions. We have emotions because they make us to enjoy our life. They make us human. I cannot imagine that we do not have emotions. If we lose the emotion, it would be a like computer, because our computer is just sitting and being a perfect machine. It just think, store stuff and give results. Therefore, if we have no emotion, it is only an intelligent machine. We have emotions, because we are not low-level animals.  


I found the four theories of emotions, which is James-Lange theory, Cannon-Bard theory, Schacter-Singer theory,  and most recently the Lazarus theory. 


The James-Lange Theory, this theory proposes that an event or stimulus cause a physiological stimulation without any conscious thought, and you experience the resulting only after you interpret the physical response.
The Cannon-Bard Theory suggests that the given stimulus evokes both a physiological and an emotion response. The Schacter-Singer Theory takes a more cognitive approach to the issue. Schacter and Singer believe that an event causes physiological arousal, but they you must identify a reason for the arousal before you label the emotion. The last theory is the Lazarus Theory proposes that when the event occurs, a cognitive consideration is made, and based on the result of the consideration, an emotion and physiological response follow. 

Alzheimer's Disease

Alzheimer‘s Disease is the most common case of dementia, this disease accounts for 50 to 80 percent of dementia cases. The case of dementia describes the symptoms, if can include loss of memory, mood changes, and problems with communication. These symptoms occur when the brain is damaged by certain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease, which means that the brain damages gradually. Alzheimer’s is not problem of age, increasing age is the great risk factor, and the most of people who has Alzheimer’s disease, they are more older than 65. However, this is not a disease of old age, people who is around 40 or 50, they also could get the Alzheimer’s disease.

I watched the video in the class. The video, “The forgetting”, this video was about the some of people who got the Alzheimer’s Disease. The people who got the Alzheimer’s Disease, they are losing their memory. Also,they are losing themselves. They could not remember anything about what they have done, and what they are doing. Also, they could not remember family and friend’s name and face. After I watched the video in class, I feel bad for the people who got the Alzheimer’s Disease. I think Alzheimer’s Disease was really sad Disease for people, this disease does not hurt the body, but it hurt the mind of people around who got the Alzheimer's disease. I cannot believe that people would lose their memories and themselves. I hope that people will not get the Alzheimer’s disease no more in the world.