The Footbridge Dilemma offers a very perplexing way of making a decision. Throughout life we are forced to make decisions; and at times, those decisions we are forced to make may be split decisions. For reasons unbeknownst to us, some of us will go with our first thought regardless if it is right or wrong. According to (Bazerman & Moore pg.,105) we are guided by emotion. Sometimes our emotion will collide with cognition making it difficult to fight internal conflicts between what we want to do and what we think we should do. Dealing with “multiple selves” hinders the process of making the proper choices. People with eating disorders have the daunting task of knowing when to stop consuming food; but often fall prey to their vice because they lack the self control to look at the big picture, resulting in instant gratification. The question remains; do we continue to allow the “want self” to take over when dealing with day to day issues or do we let the should self make the decision? Recent research was conducted to decipher the choices we make and how our emotions play an integral role in helping us do that. Positive and negative moods were studied. When a person is in a pleasant mood it increases the reliance on heuristic and results are more biased judgements. (Bodenhausen, Kramer, & Suesser, 1994). Bad moods may spark deliberate …show more content…
After putting the book down and getting a good nights sleep and a light breakfast I reread the page and my thought had changed to option B. I believe that my emotions came in to play swaying me to choose option A the night before. In the morning I believe I was able to see things in a different way because I was well rested, fed and in a better mood. I was also able to place family members and or friends in the group of ill people swaying my decision to do all I could for all
When I was a small child, I remember my parents crossing the James River on the ferry in Surry County while taking my brother and me to Jamestown. At the time, I thought it was thrilling to ride the ferry. It was fun to stand out at the bow and watch as we went over the river to the other side where the boats are docked at Jamestown. We fed the birds on the front deck, and I also remember going up into the top of the ferry where they had a seated area that allowed someone to get out of the wind and still be able to see out. As an adult, I no longer have this glowing admiration for the ferry services in Surry. It never fails that when I am approaching the dock; the ferry is pulling away. Thereafter, it will be at least a thirty-minute wait for the next ferry to arrive. As well as, the actual ride across which could be an additional thirty minutes depending on which ferry pulls into the dock. One ferry is extremely slower than the other is. I will go to great lengths to avoid the ferry services to cross the James River to Williamsburg and will rather drive around Newport News than to use the ferry. My husband and I moved to Surry County two years ago, and it would be nice to be able to travel safely to Williamsburg without the added time it takes to cross the James River on the ferry. There has been talk over the years about replacing the ferry services with a bridge; however, those notions are always disregarded. The residents of Surry County would be better served if a bridge were put in place of the ferry at Scotland Wharf.
Society pressure themselves to be happy; they often ask questions like, “does that make you happy?” What they fail to understand is that sometimes doing the right thing, for the moment, might not seem to bring happiness in one’s life, but after trekking the ups and downs of life, happiness might be waiting on the other side. From time to time people also judge good and bad through happiness. “If something is good, we feel good. If something is
Shapiro, C. M. (2012). Eating disorders: Causes, diagnosis, and treatments [Ebrary version]. Retrieved from http://libproxy.utdallas.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/utdallas/Doc?id=10683384&ppg=3
A study was conducted in which participants were presented with three dilemmas. One dilemma was called the Trolley Dilemma: a trolley is headed toward five people standing on the track. You can switch the trolley to another track killing only one person instead of five. Subjects were asked to decide between right and wrong.
Philosopher Karl Popper, an inductive skeptic, is criticized by his objection to confirmation. Rather than using the term confirmation to describe a theory that has continued to be proven correctly, Popper created his own term. Popper says that corroboration is a term used to describe theories that have been tested and not yet falsified. According to Peter Godfrey-Smith (G-S), “Popper can say why we should prefer to use a theory that has not been falsified over a theory that has been falsified” (Smith 68). The problem with Popper lies when he is presented with two theories, neither of which has been falsified. This is when Popper has difficulty choosing one theory over another. This situation can be better understood by looking at the bridge problem. I will argue that Popper is unable to solve the bridge problem using corroboration because the term is synonymous with confirmation.
These three styles optimistic, pessimistic and emotional thinking involve different aspects that must be recognized by individuals in order to gather information, analyze it, and make a solid decision. The optimist fails to see the bad in everything and everyone, the pessimist fails to see the good, and the emotionalist sees neither. All three of these thinking styles are similar as that each is, to a certain extent, based on the personal feelings of the individual. Each decision made in life will affect our future; the littlest factors of our personality can have extremely large consequences if individuals do not properly analyze inputs for critical thinking.
Recent psychological research has shown extensive interest in the relationship between eating and weight disorders and drug/alcohol addiction. At first thought, these two entities may seem to fall within completely separate and distinct areas of study. However, numerous researchers has investigated and proposed the idea that eating and weight disorders share a myriad of similarities to drug and alcohol addiction, and thus should be characterized as an addiction. An eating disorder is a serious medical condition marked by persistent eating behaviors that negatively impact bodily health, emotional stability and the ability to function in areas of everyday life.1 Most individuals with eating disorders are obsessively focused on their weight, body
“The optimism bias stands guard. It’s in charge of keeping our minds at ease and our bodies healthy. It moves us forward, rather than to the nearest high-rise rooftop.”– Sharot. In this quotation, Sharot shares her belief that we have a tendency to overestimate positive events that will happen in our life, this is the optimism bias; and this tendency keeps us living. It is also a long-term effect and not a short term one. Researchers have long discussed the question of why we still have an unrealistic optimism even though reality throws events at us that could change our view and believes. They have found that indeed, people tend to be optimistic about themselves, they also accept an information that has positive implication for them more easily that one that has negative implication for them. But do we have evidence that people have an unrealistically optimistic view of themselves; in other words, do they never predict that something negative will
People regularly associate eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia with external or internal stressors in their lives. Whether it is a job, school or even their perception of themselves, it is easy to pour emotions in to a simple action such as eating. When our bodies experience an acute stress and our body initiates the fight or flight response, our appetites are suppressed (Torres, 2007). When people think of stress eating, they tend to affiliate it with over eating, or ‘comfort eating’ as some refer to it as. Eating things we like releases a chemical called dopamine in our body, meaning that you can become almost addicted to that feeling, without realising the effect it may be having on our body; before it’s too late (Olphin/Hesson, 2007). One of the cont...
In today’s society, women are empowered, independent, and have freedom on their parts to live their life freely. This is definitely a positive aspect of the modern day society, however, this may not be how it always was. Travelling back in time, to the Red Hook community of Brooklyn, circa 1950s, we are able to see the societal expectations of a women at the time through Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge. The two female characters, Catherine and Beatrice, play crucial roles in the play and are essential to the tragic storyline of Eddie and his downfall. However, Arthur Miller has skillfully been able to show the lives and societal expectations of the women at the time, and to portray how women should not be treated. Both Catherine and Beatrice face different particular issues, but in the end are treated similarly as women. First, we shall look at Catherine and Beatrice and their individual parts in the story. After this, the portrayal of women and femininity in Red Hook at that time will be explored in reference to Catherine and Beatrice.
Growing literature suggests that emotional states can conditions the impact of given frame since the underlying role of emotions depends on problem (e.g. life or death scenarios). Druckman & McDermott hypothesized that exposure too negative (dying or losing) frame will be positively correlated with risky behaviors or choice sections. Vice versa was hypothesis to exposure to positive emotion. A similar study was done involving a treatment plan for a disease problem with results showing a
Mayer and Salovey (2001) maintained that emotions help prioritise, decide, anticipate and plan one’s actions. In order to effectively manage one’s emotions, one must first learn to identify and recognise them accurately. They should not neglect their emotions as this will reflect lack of self-awareness. For example, when someone lost their loved ones, they choose to be in a state of denial allowing themselves to be drowned in depression and sickness. They refused to get away from feeling negative and find solutions to overcome their emotions. These group of people face difficulties in recognising, identifying and managing their emotions.
Happiness is an emotional feeling that most individuals are looking to grasp onto and maintain even though unhappy or even depressive events may happen. While pursuing happiness may cause individuals in some cultures to experience higher levels of well-being. Recent research suggest the more motived an individual is in the pursuit of happiness the more likely they are to experience negative outcomes such as depressive symptoms and loneliness (Ford et. al., pg. 1054). According to Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1997), forethought is a major regulator for motivation and actions of all humans, with the largest influence on behavior being self-efficacy, which is an individual’s belief they have the ability to perform specific actions that are required to attain their desired outcome. Self-efficacy has been defined by Albert Bandura (1997), as an individual’s belief in their ability to behave appropriately in order to attain a specific goal. Therefore, the ability to control one’s own motivations, behaviors, and social environment is a reflection of
Society has always relied on transportation to survive. When man first walked the earth he relied on himself for transportation. Eventually man learned to tame wild animals and use them as a form of transportation. And finally he created machines to take him places he could not reach on his own or with the assistance of any animal. Along with the evolution of transportation came maps to mark the locations of routes taken between cities and important locations. One invention developed to expand the reach of travelers was the bridge.
Emotions are feelings that play an important part in human lives. It allows humans to do many things such as understanding themselves and communicating with one another. Most importantly, emotions are mostly responsible for humans thoughts and actions. There are many types of emotions that you might want to have such as love, happiness, inspired, or proud. On the other hand, there are also negative emotions such as hopeless, lonely, or miserable which you would want to avoid or overcome if you have those emotions. You might feel satisfied after having a good night’s sleep, nervous before exams and finals, or angry when you stub your toe. However, there are also times when a person’s emotions can also lead them to make bad decisions. An example