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Chapter 8 Discussion Questions on Emotions 1. Anger: When anger comes, my mouth becomes dry, I breathe faster than normally and my limbs tighten. Sadness: When I experience sadness, my tongue barely recognizes any taste and my muscles become loose making me feel generally weak. I can also feel a disgusting lamp forming in my throat. Sadness also influences me to be very poor at judgments. Fear: My heart races and I can feel my temperature rising. My head and hair also becomes itchy and I become too cautious with everything. Joy: Mostly, my breathing rises a little bit, I often feel stronger in my muscles than usual. Love: When I experience love, the most prevalent thing that happens, is my eyes blinking a lot and I cannot control it. Also, my stomach flip-flops, my pupils become dilated and my palms are often sweaty. 2. One of the times that I experience emotional contagion is mostly when I meet my best friend on weekends. I have realized that her smile always influence me to feel happy for no apparent reason even when looking at her status update on social media. 3. Joy is one of the facilitative emotions that I have often experienced, especially through reconnecting with family and friends this year. On the other hand, debilitative emotions include stress and sadness from losing a friend to the Coronavirus pandemic in September. 4. The fallacy of perfection is where one believes that they are supposed to manage perfectly each situation that they encounter with complete skill and confidence.

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The fallacy of approval is about the belief that one must gain everyone’s approval hence people may go out of their way to seek everybody’s acceptance. The fallacy of should. It is believing that something should be happening or it should not be happening or how it should be. People that conform to this fallacy often have statements such as “It should not be snowing during Christmas.” The fallacy of overgeneralization occurs after one’s grounds of a belief are insufficient of evidence and can influence a person to feel horrible. The fallacy of causation is when people live believing that they ought not to say or do specific things since they can upset or lead to negative feelings in others. The fallacy of helplessness is a fallacy that influences people to regard themselves as victims of a higher force that control their satisfaction such that they have no control of it The fallacy of catastrophic expectations. It occurs to fearful people who believe that if there is a possibility of something bad happening, it will definitely happen. It is also the fallacy that I have often experienced. For instance, since I previously experienced a horrible Christmas-eve in a night club by the sea I always see it ending the same way if I try to go out on the eve of Christmas. 5. One ways that I will maximize facilitative emotions is through taking pride in what I have achieved in a test or a day rather than focusing on failure. I will try to focus on the bright side of everything like what I have been able to do during the current pandemic rather than the friends I have lost to the virus....