Essays on Emotions & Feelings

Introduction The fear of negative evaluation was first designed by Watson and Friend (1969) as the anxiety about the evaluations by others, being worried about the negative evaluations, and expecting that others will evaluate one in a negative way (Watson and Friend, 1969). Fear of negative evaluation also refers to worry of an individual in...

William Golding once said, “We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.” This is explored in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. The novel begins after a plane transporting a group of school-aged boys crashes on an island leaving no adults. The boys start off civil and...

Neurobiological Considerations Anxiety disorders are characterized by disruptions in neurobiological functioning, specifically in neurotransmitter and neuroendocrine pathways, and neuroanatomical structures. The limbic system, which is the emotional-processing center of the brain, contains the hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and cingulate gyrus (Martin et al., 2010). When a stressful event occurs, the cortex is activated...

Yet ultimately, he has no other choice but to put a good face on the matter and to artificially motivate himself with predictions that appear like his grip for the last straw. By his own account, Macbeth is free of fear for the first time when he is already surrounded by the enemy forces and...

Along with his fear, his hope disappeared as well. What remains is despair, which Elizabethans defined as a sin against the Holy Spirit (Unterstenhöfer, p.171, l.1-4; p.194, l.17-19). Besides, Macbeth himself has, paradoxically, still not realized in act four, scene one that his fear evokes these diverse horror images – such as, for instance, the...

Thus he hopes to find his security in himself and his deed alone. In a monologue prior to his deed, he explicitly discloses this great wish which he ties to his upcoming crime: “[…] that but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all, […]“ (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7, l.4-5). He hence...

Additionally, he illustrates how the initial illusory character of fear (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3, l.51–52: “why do you start, and seem to fear / Things that do sound so fair?“) becomes consciously experienced reality (Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3, l.139-140: “Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings.“) which, through the overvalued conception of...

Charles Y. Glock, the American sociologist, made a fundamental contribution to the sociological study of religion. It included five dimensions and those are religious belief, experience, practice, theology and ethics. To study the differential commitment to religion Glock had also contributed to the discussions on the conceptualization of religious orientation by proposing a five-dimensional model...

Background The Army Crew Team case portrays a mentor’s perplexity in identifying with the choice including the arrangement of the best group for the National championship races which are only four days away. Colonel Stas Preczweski, alluded to as Coach P, was the mentor of a military Crew Team for the U.S.Military. There were two...

Charles Y. Glock, an American sociologist made a fundamental contribution to the sociological study of religion in order to operationalize the concept of religion. He distinguished five major dimensions of religiosity belief, experience, practice, theology and ethics. Glock has also contributed to the discussions on the conceptualization of religious orientation by proposing a five-dimensional model...