how emotions and cognition influence attitudes and
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Q1. Explain how emotions and cognition influence attitudes and behaviour.
ANSWER –
Your emotion drives the self inner sense of the behaviour of individual. When we have many kinds of
emotions and these emotions affects our attitude and behaviour. Human mind have many kind of
emotions but here we are going to talk about the main and important emotions. Let’s talk about
emotions and cognition influence on attitude and behaviour.
Anger – Angry man or woman behave differently than the normal man and woman. When same person
is angry, he is completely a different person who totally changed the attitude and behaviour of the
person. Anger reduces the thinking and understanding power of the brain and person don’t listen to
anyone but to your anger only
Fear – Fear is another emotion which changes the behaviour of person completely in comparison to the
normal person. Same can be getting agreed to some point because of fear of losing something or fear of
beating.
Joy – Joy is another emotion which makes the person happy about some action or some other person or
may be about some achievement. It will motivate the person to amazing things which he may not do
normally
Surprise – People react differently when surprised. Some people like it or some may not like it. But
surprise change the personality of person completely
Love – Love is another emotion human body and mind produces and feel. Person can be persuasive in
love and achieve many great things in life. Or completely destroyed because somebody deceived him or
used him for his/her benefit.
Sadness – Sadness can take the person toward depression and sometime person do unwanted thing like
committing suicide or locking himself inside the house. So sadness may completely shatter the person
confidence. He/she may not be able to gain confidence until sadness resides inside him.
Emotion and cognition change the attitude and behaviour of the person completely; because it affect
the thinking process and change the way person think about something. Human thinking is directly
connected to the human behaviour.
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