Posted by alexandra_k on August 29, 2005, at 1:24:05
In reply to Re: does it really? » alexandra_k, posted by Gabbix2 on August 29, 2005, at 1:17:07
> However, I don't think people can determine what is "hard wired"
Yeah thats right. Those are the ones that are hard-wired from birth. They are innate. You get them in virtue of being a human being.
>I don't think one can determine what else may be hard wired for other individuals
Some of them you get by virtue of being human. Humans tend to respond to snakes and spiders with a fear response. But over time... We can learn to inhibit this fear response...
>I can't cheer myself out of a depression, no matter how many people think I can "snap out of it"
Yeah. Most people seem to think that emotions are a cognitive interpretation of levels of physiological arousal. The 'intensity' of the emotion is to do with the level of physiological arousal. When you are depressed you are having low levels of arousal. Try talking your way out of that one ;-)
> And words affect us physiologically as well.yes.
though mostly... via an interpretation...
(because the connection between words and what they signify isn't something that is innate - it is something that we learn. We learn a language. So the associations aren't as strong...)
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