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August 28, 2009

Emotions reflect intentions. Therefore, awareness of emotions leads to awareness of intentions. --Gary Zukav

How Emotions Influence Advice Taking:
Research from Wharton and Carnegie Melon has shown that emotions not only influence people's receptiveness to advice, but they do so even when the emotions have no link to the advice or the adviser. At one level, the conclusion that the two researchers -- Maurice Schweitzer and Francesca Gino -- came to, seems obvious. Of course, people's moods affect their frame of mind. Most people have felt stress or gloom seep into their thinking from time to time, coloring their overall outlook. Even so, until recently, economic analysis has taken as its premise the idea that, when it comes to dollars and cents, people can wall off their emotions. What follows is their paper, titled "Blinded by Anger or Feeling the Love: How Emotions Influence Advice Taking." [more]

Be The Change:
The next time you feel a strong emotion, consider how it is affecting the decisions you are making.


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Previous Reflections:

On Aug 28, 2009 Pastor Roy writes:

The flesh is full of feelings. Thank God I don't have to depend on feelings to do the right thing. Knowing the mind of Christ Jesus allows that I can salt every decision with light and wisdom from above. You see, the Word of God gives me the ability to operate my life on much more than human feelings. Although they are ever present He leads me to exhibit the very charactor of Christ. Gal 5.

On Aug 28, 2009 Zack writes:

Really, it all boils down to you keeping yourself in check... and not giving credit to anyone else-- for having it together or losing yourself in your emotions.   YOU are responsible for your own emotions and actions.  React or observe and act accordingly....it's up to you.    

We all have emotions that rise and fall....we are human.   It will always be that way and we should not attempt to distance or escape from this reality.   I believe that we should just try to live to be true to ourselves and serve our own individual higher purpose.   

There is no one way, or one right anwser for everyone.    A universal understanding of love will take you everywhere you need to be. 

On Aug 29, 2009 CrystalsQuest writes:

The scientific approach has a lot to answer for.  Our emotions are not meant to be walled off from decisions - they're our gateway to an understanding that goes beyond the here and now. 

Hunches, intuition, gut feelings - all the top performers follow them, including top CEOs & managers. 

Dispassion is not the gateway to better decisions - that gateway is only open to people who are in touch with the deepest levels of their own being, and just like the entry to the Delphic Oracle, is labelled "Know Thyself"

On Aug 29, 2009 Melissa writes:

It seems the study shows that the mindset we are in determines how much we are willing to observe and recieve from our surroundings. The way I see it, emotion is the Energy that we put in motion and when our energy is so small, revolving only around our own ego, we become what society deems as "selfish", and when we are aware of the larger gammut of what God is trying to show us in this world, we then are more able to accept advise from others and be happy... and lo and behold, we also have pleasant emotions! Hence part of the book mentioned refers to anger as blinding.  I hope this message can encourage everyone to take a deep breath and admire what's around them.

On Aug 29, 2009 RAJESH writes:

 Emotions are basically the inner feeling of a man which directly comes from the core of the heart.It is hundred percent the perception also which I personally feel because if i am not comfortable  with Mr X then naturally my emotion for that particular man would be less vibrant.  

On Aug 30, 2009 Rod writes:

 The son of someone I know very well was talking to me the other day about taking the SAT test recently. I asked him what the essay part of the test consisted of. He said there was only one question: "Is "analytic reason" or "gut feeling" the best way to make decisions?" In addition, they were instructed to defend one side or the other.

I asked him how he answered the question and he said: "I used "analytic reasoning" to prove that the "gut level" approach to making decisions was the best approach." 

Incidentally, he received full credit for his answer.

 

On Dec 24, 2009 charles niyonsaba writes:

There is no behavior without a cause, however we should learn how to solve poblems or how to cope with it rather than being over pre- occupied with it

 
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