PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Homo Economicus, Motivation, Rationality
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Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind as you are learning about emotion, is that emotions involve your whole being they are emotional processes but also cognitive and physiological processes as well. One implication is that, what you do with your body and your mind is the emotional experience you will end up having, the emotional life you will end up being. A second implication is that your life is very strongly determined by oyur emotions, and you are often out of control of these processes (eg. best times, stupidest mistakes, etc) We are primarily rational, self interested creatures. However it has some problems; the most people think they are like this the more they chase financial gain which means well ideal with sadness, loneliness, etc. A host of issues: unfulfilled, not thriving in life, extrinsically motivations and. Inauthentic , defensive, tends to rigidly hold to views, negative emotions are frequent (anger, anxiety, boredom, etc)
