PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anatta, Confirmation Bias, Motivation
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Our emotions are easily triggerabl based on cues from the environment. The triggering of emotions builds resources for us. Our emotions evolved to make our physiology do things. After we evolved language, we could develop anger. Our thoughts can trigger our emotions with just our thoughts. We can make our selves feel like failures if you think about it for a while. This ability gives us a lot of options, but it also decpouples us from the eivornmtnt. It means that the functioning of our emotional system can get hijacked by our thoughts, where our emotions can take us over and make us depressed for long periods of time. Getting a hold of your emotions is unbelievably important because it will influence the evenets of your life. If our emotions are our thoughts in our body, then we can gain control over our thoughts. Even when we are thinking about things, but we are really feeling about things.
