...Happiness and Positive Emotions The United States Declaration of Independence states: “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness”. To mention happiness in such an important document that would later go on to be the foundation of an entire country, carries a lot of weight and meaning. Most Americans agree that happiness is an important part of one’s life. Even though different cultures have a different perception of happiness, it is still plays a significant role. Research has been done which states people who are happier achieve better life outcomes, including financial success, supportive relationships, mental health, and even physical health and longevity. Having read the chapter of happiness and positive emotions and a few articles, I will related the readings and research to my own understanding and interpretation of how each plays a role in my life. Research on positive emotions, such as happiness, compassion, love and hope, is relatively new. Most scientists who study emotions focus on negative states such as depression, anxiety, and fear. Psychologists spend most of their time trying to help people control those states, whereas happiness is a positive emotion that does not need any help to overcome. Researchers have trouble defining and measuring happiness, and have concluded that happiness does not fit the definition of an emotion. The authors of Emotion, Shiota and Kalat, state that happiness qualifies more as a mood or affect, and people with a happy personality...
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...Brief Lesson Plan in English V (Using 2C2IA Approach) I. Level: Grade 1 II. Objectives a. Identify the new words through its meanings b. Answer wh questions from the story listened to. c. Use the comparative and superlative degrees of objectives. d. Write examples of comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives. e. Sustain interest in giving examples of the degrees of adjectives. f. Respond to the story through the following activities: Group 1: Acting out the ways does Mariang Makiling in showing her kindness to the hunters. Group 2: Tell the revenge of Mariang Makiling. Group 3: Describe Mariang Makiling. g. Get information from the three parts of a paragraph. III. Topic: Using the comparative degrees of objectives. References: English Expressways 5, Language, Evelyn Angeles et.al, pp. 184-199 English 5, Alexes Anne F. Cruz, pp. 184-197 IV. Skill: Listening V. Materials: Flashcards, pictures, laptop, projector VI. Procedure: Pre 1. Present a puzzle and the students are going to arrange the puzzle to form picture. 2. Ask the students on “What did you see in this picture that you have formed?” 3. Ask the students on “What if you have a chance to meet a fairy, what is the thing that you would wish for?” 4. Ask the students if they know the story of Mariang Makiling. 5. Start reading the story. Post Reading The teacher ask question. ...
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...Detailed Lesson Plan in English 1 (COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES) Submitted by: ADRIAN R. CAPALAR LANCE M. RELATIVO EUGENE S. JAMIAS Submitted to: MR. ERNESTO P.CADS Detailed Lesson Plan in English I-Objectives During the period, the students are expected to: 1. Use the different forms of comparison of adjective correctly; 2. Enumerate the rules in comparing things.persons and places; 3.Participate in activities relevant to the topic. II-Subject Matter Topic: Comparison of Adjectives Reference: Better English for Philippine High School Josephine Serrano pp.149-151 Materials: Pictures, chalk,visual aids. III-Procedure Teacher's Activities Student's Activities Task 1-Routinely Activities 1.Prayer Let us start our day casting our- selves to the lord.Everybody is invited (the students stand for an opening prayer) to stand for an opening prayer. _________________,Lead the prayer. Let us pray classmate.In the name of the father and the son and of the holy Holy spirit....AMEN 2.Greetings GOOD MORNING CLASS!!! GOODMRNING SIR LANCE You...
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...flashcards, manila paper Value Focus: Being humble always III. Teacher Learning Activities A. Pre-Activities 1. Unlocking of Difficulties well-off guest room househelp boastfulness humble B. Lesson Proper 1. Motivation “Picture Puzzle Game” Distribute picture puzzle in each group. 2. Presentation A. Storytelling: “Rich Richie” Guide Questions: 1. Who are the main characters in the story? 2. What kind of friends does Ara chooses? 3. Where did Richie took Ara? 4. Does Richie helps in their household chores? 5. What did Ara realize after staying at Richie’s house? 3. Discussion Degrees of comparison in descriptive words. POSITIVE | COMPARATIVE | SUPERLATIVE | good | better | best | easy | easier | easiest | POSITIVE DEGREE- is used when simply describing persons or things. COMPARATIVE DEGREE- is used when comparing two persons or things. SUPERLATIVE DEGREE- is used when comparing three or more persons or things. IV. Evaluation Direction: Identify in what degree of comparison is the underlined words in the sentence. ______________ 1. Katherine is smarter than Ana. ______________ 2. Lebron is the tallest player in their team. ______________ 3. Princess is pretty. ______________ 4. Anne is smarter than her sister. ______________ 5. Ina is rich. ______________ 6. Dennis is the happiest student in their class. V. Enrichment...
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...trials of three word streams, each containing two target words. Target words were identical for the ID condition and different for the control condition. The words were divided into taboo, negative emotion, positive emotion and neutral words. Results showed that all ID categories showed more Repetition Blindness (RB) than the control condition and that taboo and negative emotion words generated more RB than neutral and positive words. Interestingly, neutral words demonstrated a higher RB than positive emotion words, possibly suggesting the salience of negativity over emotion. Method Participants A total of 24 students comprised of 15 females and 9 males, from an undergraduate second year psychology class took part in the experiment. The mean age was 28.8, and the ages ranged from 19-50. All participants first learned to read and write in English, and 21 also spoke English as their first language. Materials Participants used the lab computers to complete the trials. Each trial consisted of three words, which included the target words C1 and C2 and a filler word in between them. The target words were identical in the treatment group and different for the control group. There were four types of words used for the four different conditions: taboo; negative emotion; positive emotion; and neutral. Participants completed a total of 80 trials each and the words used for the different conditions can be found in Appendix A. Procedure Participants completed the trials as part of...
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...Do the positive effects of emotions on decision making outweigh the negative effects? Steward et al. (2010); Manz (1986) Introduction During the whole process of life, people want to make so many decisions. When students graduate from the degree of bachelor, they have to make decisions if they need to continue their master degree. When girls go shopping together and see the beautiful goods which they really like but not necessary, they want to think about if they require buying that. When children have many problems to face about their real life, parents should think about if they would overcome the problems together with their children or not. There is no doubt that these examples can be all impacted by the emotions and these all depend on the feelings in that timing of making their decisions. Emotions can be defined as the feelings related to the experience, things or people that offer the creation of runnable actions. There are two dimensions about the emotion, including evaluation which has positive evaluation and negative evaluation and activation which has low activation and high activation. Actually, the positive emotions are very important to every people. When people in the positive mood, they will be more flexible, creative and open to the suggestions. In addition, it is more likely to see and receive the things what people want in the positive emotions. Furthermore, people in the positive state always try to find things to make them in the positive emotions. If they...
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...Many researchers have provided theoretical frameworks for examining impulse buying related to psychological variables, hedonic experiences and situational variables in a shopping context. The researcher assumed that fashion-oriented impulse buying is related strongly to fashion involvement. And in the 1991, Han et al, found textile and clothing students had significantly higher impulse buying scores than students in other majors. Their finding supports a notion that fashion involvement might encourage fashion-oriented impulse buying by providing sensory or experiential cues of fashion products. Also, fashion-oriented impulse buying can be predicted by other prominent variables such as hedonic consumption tendency (Hausman, 2000) and positive emotion when shopping (Mattila and Enz, 2002). PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION Few studies exist for predicting fashion-oriented impulse buying behavior. This study addresses the need to examine impulse buying behavior related to fashion products. RESEARCH QUESTION Exploring a model of fashion-oriented impulse buying in conjunction with product involvement and experiential aspects of consumption including hedonic consumption tendency...
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...Do Emotions Effect Job Performance Monica Colbert Virginia College Abstract Emotions are pure human physiological phenomena. Experiencing emotions is a part of being human. It’s a must that it be managed to keep a healthy staff and a growing bottom line. Emotions have a profound effect on almost everything we do in the workplace. What employees feel and how they express their emotions affects their performance. Emotions directly influence decision making, creativity and interpersonal relations. An employee is critically affected by their behaviors in the workplace (Perez. 2010. Pg 1). An employee’s emotions and overall temperament has a significant impact on his job performance, decision making skills, team spirit, and leadership skills. Leadership is actually about emotion management and emotions don’t just affect businesses but contribute to their structure. According to The Behavioral Health Coaching Institute, emotions can harm employees, affect how they react to pressures and be the cause of low productivity and poor results. It also states that “Emotional pain is an inevitable part of life. It can come from the outside, but it often stems from painful incidents at work, such as the behavior of immediate bosses, uncooperative employees, abrasive clients, poorly handled mergers or changes, bad work policies and practices, or the stress and grind of everyday work.” Do Emotions Affect Job Performance Almost any job that we have, there is a point in time where things get emotional;...
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...communication, because it is the best way of the clarifying emotions among other non-verbal means of communication. In this chapter is covered the functional part of eye contact as a non verbal part of communication.The material of our research serve 773 fragments of English text which contain the description of the communicative situation where eye-contact is used. Eye contact as a mean of expressing emotions The eye contact includes many meanings, with which communicants send a lot of information to each other. In a broad sennse emotion is any human’s relatively brief conscious experience of the impact of internal and external stimuli associated with pleasure or displeasure of the various needs of the body. Modern psychology offers various typologies of emotions. In this study will be used the classification of basic emotions by russian psychologist and researcher K.E. Izard. Emotion is called fundamental when it has its own mechanism of an origin and expression of special means of mime and pantomime. It is believed that these emotions are innate. K.E. Izard distinguishes these fundamental emotions [18, p.27]: - interest-excitement - a positive emotion that motivates learning, development of skills and abilities, activates the learning process, stimulating curiosity - joy - pleasure - a positive emotional arousal that occurs when there is a full satisfaction of some urgent needs - grief - suffering - negative emotion, which is caused by the complex of reasons related to...
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...Emotions are one’s state of mind and natural responses, but scientific discourse has drifted to other meanings. It’s also evident that emotion senses on the meanings. I have experienced more positive emotions over the past four day. These emotions are characterized by happiness and positive expectations. These emotions are expectation of a brighter future. This because I had been informed a job opportunity had been secured on my behalf. This has been my dream since I was born. This was a dream come true because, I have always been thinking about the job. These positive emotions brought about anxiety in me thus I was not able to settle. I have also had negative emotions in the last four days. These emotions have generated negative thoughts in me. This can be as a result to a response of an expected trip that I was eager to be present. I could not believe my ears to hear that the trip had been cancelled due to the fact that one of our friends had lost their parents. The fact that I was not aware also brought about a negative emotion (Cassady & Eissa, 2009). Emotions are complex. According to some theories, they are a state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence our behavior. This can also be linked to the arousal of the nervous system with various states and strengths of arousal relating, apparently, to particular emotions. It’s also linked in some way to behavioral tendency. A similar description can be derived from the sociology....
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...affect Riordan Manufacturing. Self-assessments analyzed job satisfaction, emotions, how their emotions affect them, and how they make decisions. After a thorough analysis of the self-assessments, additional recommendations will be presented to assist Riordan Manufacturing gain a better perspective on the management and motivation of their employees. The participant in the Riordan Manufacturing self-assessments are Jonathan Cervantes, Lori Credico, and Holly Hunter. The following self-assessments were administered to the employees: How Satisfied Am I with My Job?, What’s My Affect Intensity?, Am I A Deliberate Decision Maker?, and How Are You Feeling Right Now? Management could identify their strengths and weaknesses manager based on the self-assessments of each employee and developed a plan on how to place employees in an area where each employee will feel more engaged in their job. Lori Credico’s self-assessments indicate a job satisfaction rating below average. Lori is affected by her moods only moderately, is a deliberate decision maker, and exhibits positive emotions. Holly Hunter has above average rating in job performance, is moderately affected by moods, shows both rash and deliberate decision-making and demonstrates fairly neutral emotions. Jonathan Cervantes indicate a low level of job satisfaction, high in affect intensity, is a deliberate decision maker and exhibited positive emotions on his...
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...broad range of feeling people’s experience. Emotions are intense feelings directed at someone or something. Moods are less intense feelings than emotions that often arise without a specific event. Affect is a broad term that encompasses emotions and moods. Emotions is more likely cause by specific events and emotions are more brief than moods. 2. List the basic emotions along a continuum. What are the difficulties of using this continuum? b. Happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, anger, disgust. Emotion can be fleeting, but moods can endure. Moods can be last longer and be more durable. 3. Of the eight sources of emotions and moods identified in your text, which do you feel is the most critical and why? c. I would pick Sleep. Because if you don’t sleep then you cannot function at all. If you sleep then you can function very well. 4. What are the sources of stress and emotional labor for employees? d. Felt emotions and displayed emotions. 5. How valid do you consider the concept of emotional intelligence to be? Rationalize your answer. e. Self-awareness – knowing yours fell self-management – manage your emotions and impulse self-motivation- - can motivate yourself and endure empathy – sense and understand what others feel social skills – can handle the emotions of other 6. Consider the impact of emotions on customer service. What is the effect of emotions and moods on customer satisfaction, and how...
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...a series of self-assessments to identify specific characteristics and to determine how those traits affect the performance of the organization. The self- assessments analyzed job satisfaction, employee engagement, and emotions. As a result of the analysis of the assessments, additional self-assessment recommendations are included to provide greater insight for the successful management and motivation of the individual employees. J. Aguilar, Rick Smith, and Janet Mills are the employees who participated in the self-assessments. The employees took the following self-assessments: How Satisfied Am I with My Job?, Am I Engaged? And How Are You Feeling Right Now? The manager identified the strengths and weaknesses of the employees based on the assessments and developed a management plan for the organization to best capitalize on the employees’ characteristics. The results of J. Aguilar assessments indicated a job satisfaction rating below the means, exhibited high engagement, and positive emotions during the assessment. Rick Smith scored higher than the means in job performance, demonstrated high engagement, and exhibited positive emotions. Janet Mills scored below the means in job satisfaction, is only moderately engaged, and expressed relatively neutral emotions during the assessment. Job Satisfaction Job satisfaction is the general attitude one holds about a job, which can dramatically affect the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization (University of Phoenix, 2011...
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...billion company, but he has made this a company that has made it onto Fortune Magazine’s “Best Companies to Work For” list. Cadieux says “We’ve been able to compete successfully because of our people. We hire better people, train them better, and pay them more. We are obsessed with keeping the stores clean and well-merchandised and with providing a rewarding customer experience overall.” (Quicktrip.com) Discussion Employee Attitudes and Emotions Influence on Work Behaviors. It appears that the average Quick Trip employee carries a positive attitude and their emotions are projected as the same. As described in the course readings, these positive emotions then directly influence employee work behaviors in a positive way. Also, through creating a positive work environment, the positive emotions also drive positive attitudes which then gives off an overall appearance of a “happy” work environment to fellow employees and also potential employees that may walk through the door. This process of emotional contagion, causes the positive emotions to be spread from one employee to another and so on. Managers having good emotional intelligence can control and change employee...
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...1. What factors do you think make some organizations ineffective at managing emotions? There are many factors that make some organizations ineffective at managing emotions in the workplace, such as personality issues or depression or different culture or lack of management involvement with employees. It is hard to help them when they keep it as a secret and not willing to tell anyone. Each person may not act in the same way in a same situation due to cultural background (Robbin 2013). As a result, organizations face difficulties when they are handling with their employee’s emotions. In addition, sometimes leaders of the organizations cannot control their own emotions as well, since everyone has his/her difficulties and bad mood in sometimes. On the other hand, emotions are considered disruptive which they felt interfered with employees’ ability to work in organizations. Employees are not allowed to express frustration within the workplace, but they didn’t realize that emotions are a part of daily life. 2. Do you think the strategic use and display of emotions serve to protect employees, or does covering your true emotions at work lead to more problems than it solves? In my opinion, covering your true emotions at work lead to more problems that it solves that will not solve your problem in a long term and it will make thing worse. Although, it make people feel less trustful and disrespectful on his/her works. Therefore, you should perform a professional manner when you are...
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