Emotion and Intuition

Emotion

&

Intuition

To what extent does emotion affect the other ways of knowing?

What is emotion?

“A natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.”

- Oxford's Dictionaries

“A conscious mental reaction (as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body”

- Webster's Dictionary

“There is no widely accepted taxonomy of the inner life” -Diana Fritz Cates

How can we express and understand our emotions?

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

intrapersonal knowledge

vs

interpersonal knowledge

To what extent, if any, is intrapersonal intelligence affected by interpersonal experiences?

How do we identify our emotions?

Activity: Start a document on your computer

language

useful for discussion and categorization of emotions

"Words refer only roughly to the emotional experiences"

sense perception

To what extent, if any, does self-observation help us understand our own emotions?

reasoning

Sometimes reasoning trumps emotion,

Sometimes emotion trumps reasoning

Sometimes they work together

How do emotions affect decision making?

Sympathy and Empathy

Understanding of another person's emotions

Requires imagination

What is intuition?

How do we gain intuition?

Confirmation Bias

Quick Thinking

Does intuition trump reason?

To what extent, if at all, do we place value in intuition?

Biases

• Confirmation Bias
• Inattentional Bias
• Hindsight Bias
• Availability Bias
• Affect Heuristic
• Halo Affect
• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• The Just-World Fallacy
• Attribution Bias
• Blind Spot Bias

Which comes first, belief or justification?

Overcoming Problems of Knowledge

• Learn about cognitive biases
• Try to activate rational thinking
• Practice counter-arguing and shifting perspectives
• Think about people, not just points of view

Activity

Anger

For each picture shown write down 1. the emotion displayed and

2. a justification for choosing that emotion

Problems of Knowledge:

Ambiguity

Assumption

Sadness

Paul Ekman

Enjoyment

Fear

Phineas Gage

Misinterpretations

Assumptions

Limitation of senses/language/other ways of knowing

emotion

feelings

permanency

volatility

mood

temperament

Tomkin’s

• Anger
• Interest
• Contempt
• Disgust
• Distress
• Fear
• Joy
• Shame
• Surprise

Weiner and Graham

Follow your heart

Works Cited

"Definition of Emotion in English:." Emotion: Definition of Emotion in

Oxford Dictionary (American English) (US). Oxford Dictionaries, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.

Dombrowski, Eileen, Lena Rotenberg, Mimi Bick, and Richard Van De.

Lagemaat. Theory of Knowledge: Course Companion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2007. Print.

"Emotion." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.

"Micro Expressions - Paul Ekman Group, LLC." Paul Ekman Group LLC.

N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Sept. 2014.

"Six Universal Expressions." Six Universal Expressions. N.p., n.d. Web. 21

Sept. 2014.

"What Is the Difference Between Sympathy and Empathy?" WiseGEEK.

N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.

Long Term Memory

First knowledge to come

implicit

explicit

emotional memory

semantic

habits/skills

episodic

By Autumn Sanson, Madison Scarcella and Will DeAugustino

How does emotion affect our other ways of knowing?