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Conceptual Study – Published: January 20, 2011


Tune Your Emotions

P. Srinivasan
ABSTRACT
The paper talks about the need for tuning emotions. It starts with definition of the behaviour emotion. Emotion is a stirred up state of an organism. Brain has two seats of power. One is rational brain and the other is emotional brain. Emotional brain is primitive over the rational brain. Therefore at times when we are in emotive stage, emotional brain swings into action and order certain activities. This is called as emotional hijackings. Emotion has physical, chemical, biological and neurobiological basis. In physical change, we do certain physical activity such as upon seeing a snake we ran from the scene. Emotion inhibits the cognition and host of mental functions. Different parts of brain control, manage and exhibit different combinations of emotions. Neurobiological talks about neural pathways and how emotional hijacking is carried over in the brain.
Keywords: Emotion, Emotional Brain, Rational Brain, Emotional Hijacking, Neurobiology of Emotions, Cognitive Inhibition, Behavioural Response, Brain Functions, Neural Pathways, Psychology.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Srinivasan, P. (2011). Tune your emotions. Indian Educational Researcher, 4(1), 27–33.
Received: December 16, 2010; Revision Received: January 10, 2011; Accepted: January 20, 2011.