The perspective that made sense to me the most about emotions was the social influences on emotions. People's emotions are represented and influenced by the culture and the social groups they belong to. Social influences like family, neighborhoods, gangs, schools, work places reflect peoples emotions. Where ever we stand in the relationship with who we are hanging out with or around reflects are emotion depending on if we like them or not. This perspective shows that people hide their real emotions because they don't want to feel weird and not normal. This perspective is probably why people don't act on how they feel and hide their emotions because they want to fit in and what not. The other perspectives gives you insight on other people's emotion but the social influences stuck out because i feel like people emotions are more hidden due to the influences around them because they either don't want to hurt anyones feelings, shyness, etc. People just have to be real and blunt sometimes but thats just what i think. :)
I agree with you completely on this subject. Many people do hide their real emotions and do this to fit in with the group in which they feel like they belong in. I have noticed, even within my own family that people always hide their emotions on certain subjects and they do this because they do not want to be different from the rest of their family. People need to be themselves more and stop trying to hide behind their emotions. People need to stop being afraid of who they really are and start showing their real emotions to the world. Thank you for your post.
ReplyDeleteI think that I can’t agree with you more on the perspective about emotions on social influences especially with friends and family. When it is towards your friends that you are trying to get to know more of or people you just met in class and trying to be friends, you often hide a lot of your true emotions and feelings because you wouldn’t know how to express it to them and how they will take it after you do express it. When it comes to family, even though family is so close to you that you can share anything with them, there are often a lot more emotions and feelings that you hide from them because you care for them that much more!
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