Importance Of Emotion Essay

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(Opening)Why is emotion important statement? Emotion is essential to giving effective speeches, but more importantly emotion has the power to move people and transcend the given issue at hand. Furthermore, leaders who wish to be effective when speaking to a group of people, must use the power of emotion, in order to achieve desired results. With this being said, what is emotion exactly? Define Emotion and what it is(practically)? Emotion, to be very broad, is an action that is produced by neural impulses, that have developed over the course of time through evolution. A more scientific definition of emotion, as described by the Head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Antonio R. Damasio, M.D., Ph.D, …show more content…

However, if you asked that same group of college students how they were feeling today, you would see a similar pattern in answers. This is because we all experience emotions;happiness, sadness, fear, anger, frustration, pride, content, surprise, anticipation, etc. While science may disagree on the amount of possible emotions, it is clear that humans in general share many emotions with their fellow man or …show more content…

Emotion is “ best conceptualized as a multiply determined family of cognitive, psychophysiological, behavioral, and social phenomena.” In light of this definition an individual can expect an audience to consciously or unconsciously pick up on emotions that are be exhibited by said speaker. Additionally, there is a vast amount of ways in which a speaker exhibits emotions that an audience can recivice. To put it another way Emotional contagion is multilevel phenomenon: “The precipitating stimuli arise from one individual, act upon (i.e., be perceived and interpreted by) one or more other individuals, and yield corresponding or corresponding/complementary emotions in these individuals. Thus, an important consequence of emotional contagion is an attentional, emotional, and behavioral synchrony that has the same adaptive utility (and drawbacks) for social entities (dyads or groups) as has emotion for any individual.” As we are learning more about the human brain, we see that their our strong connections between successful speakers and the strong emotions that they

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