Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2015/Kindness and happiness

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I was going to suggest linking your chapter to buddhism. Make sure you have good definition of both concepts to avoid confusion of everyones personal definitions being applied to the chapter. All best Iga.leszczynska (discuss • contribs) 02:17, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hi. What a cool topic you have chosen. Your writing is really good and you make some great points. i would suggest looking into putting some more pictures on your page to break up the information and make it visually appealing. i also think you might want to incorporate some theories (maslow's hierarchy of needs), james-lange theory, and the schachter-singer theory. The james-lange theory basically states that emotion is caused by the body responding to an event, not the individual's perception of it. So an individual will first experience a bodily response (e.g racing heart) which corresponds to the emotion. after experiencing the active response, the emotion will be experience. (e.g if i see a magpie my heart starts racing. my body interprets my racing heart and then my brain tells me i am nervous). the sschacter-singer theory discusses how someone can only experience emotion if they are capture in the moment. their body responds and the emotional response must occur. (e.g someone can be excited to go to the movies and be terrified of an intrude, both cause a racing heart yet illicit different emotions). each emotion is situation dependant. i would also look at the biology and what happens in the brain and the areas affected when doing kind actions.

ref: Schopler, J., & Compere, J. S. (1971). Effects of being kind or harsh to another on liking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 20(2), 155. LeDoux, J. (1998). The emotional brain: The mysterious underpinnings of emotional life. Simon and Schuster. Good luck and i look forward to reading your chapter! --U3034876 (discuss • contribs) 04:45, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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