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shadowkat1. Hmmm...
When You Are Most Likely To Catch Other Peoples Emotions
Researchers have largely assumed that people’s emotions get influenced automatically—in an unconscious, immediate response to other people’s emotions, said Goldenberg. His team’s new research challenges that perspective.
“Our emotions are not passive nor automatic,” Goldenberg said. “They are a little bit of a tool. We have the ability to use our emotions to achieve certain goals. We express certain emotions to convince other people to join our collective cause. On social media, we use emotions to signal to other people that we care about the issues of a group to make sure people know we’re a part of it.”
Further research needs to be done in order to understand the relationship between people and their emotions. One of the next topics Goldenberg says he wants to examine further is whether the desire of people to want to see and experience certain emotions lies at the core of how they choose their network of friends and other people around them.
“It seems that the best way to regulate your emotions is to start with the selection of your environment,” Goldenberg said. “If you don’t want to be angry today, one way to do that is to avoid angry people. Do some people have an ingrained preference for stronger emotions than others? That’s one of my next questions.”
Well avoiding angry people is easier said than done. What if you work in cubicles next to them or are staying with one during a vacation? Or living with someone who is angry? Or on the train with them? Meditation does help and shielding, also ignoring it. That's it. You can't just avoid people.
Interesting bit about social media and how it can fuel angry. This is why I tend to avoid Twitter -- Twitter is VERY angry. And is constantly yelling and cursing at everyone. Facebook is somewhat less angry. Instagram is just pictures -- so no not really angry. DW...it depends, but not quite as angry.
2. Just finished watching the film directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodgriez, Tessa Thompson, and Oscar Issacs, called Annihilation -- which I would categorize as biological and psychological horror, with alien influence. Although I didn't really find it scary, so much as weirdly horrifying and beautiful at the same time.
Lena, Natalie Portman, is a doctor of biology, studying cancer cells -- when her husband who had been missing in action for a while, mysteriously reappears. Her husband, Oscar Issacs or Kane, had been on a secret mission. He returns oddly changed and then suddenly gets very ill with seizures. On the way to the hospital, Lena and her husband are taken into custody by the military. Apparently her husband had been part of a secret mission to investigate "the shimmer" -- something odd has taken over an area of the New England Coast -- a remote area with a lighthouse and a small village. They've quarantined it and evacuated people within a fifty mile radius -- stating it is a major chemical spill. No one has come in or out of it, except Lena's husband.
Lena joins an expedition of women scientists and researchers to investigate. All have problems. So it is a dysfunctional crew. And what they find inside forever changes them and they don't all make it out again.
It surprised me. I expected it to go one way, it went the other. And there were aspects that were creepy and beautiful at the same time. I wouldn't call it gross, or I didn't find it so. Just trippy and weirdly pretty, in an oddly horrifying way.
Portman is rather expressionless during most of it -- so it's hard to really care that much about her character. She plays it as if she's numb or in shock or a ghost of herself. Thompson and Rodriguez put the most into the performances, and feel the most present. Tuvy who plays Shepard is creepy. And Jennifer Jason Leigh -- is cold and bitchy, and difficult to like or care about. This results in a weird distancing from the film, and it is hard to be afraid for the characters or care that much. Not helped by the fact that you know from the very beginning that only Portman's character makes it out alive. The director seems to be more interested in the special effects and imagery, than his characters -- and this shows in both the slow pacing, and the inability to care all that much.
I enjoyed it in an intellectual sort of way, but it never truly engaged my emotions.
The reason I watched -- was the descriptions I'd read had intrigued me and I was admittedly curious. It is different from most of the horror that I've seen to date.
Should I provide more extensive spoilers? Eh no. Everything I've provided above you learn within the first fifteen minutes of the movie -- so they aren't really spoilers.
When You Are Most Likely To Catch Other Peoples Emotions
Researchers have largely assumed that people’s emotions get influenced automatically—in an unconscious, immediate response to other people’s emotions, said Goldenberg. His team’s new research challenges that perspective.
“Our emotions are not passive nor automatic,” Goldenberg said. “They are a little bit of a tool. We have the ability to use our emotions to achieve certain goals. We express certain emotions to convince other people to join our collective cause. On social media, we use emotions to signal to other people that we care about the issues of a group to make sure people know we’re a part of it.”
Further research needs to be done in order to understand the relationship between people and their emotions. One of the next topics Goldenberg says he wants to examine further is whether the desire of people to want to see and experience certain emotions lies at the core of how they choose their network of friends and other people around them.
“It seems that the best way to regulate your emotions is to start with the selection of your environment,” Goldenberg said. “If you don’t want to be angry today, one way to do that is to avoid angry people. Do some people have an ingrained preference for stronger emotions than others? That’s one of my next questions.”
Well avoiding angry people is easier said than done. What if you work in cubicles next to them or are staying with one during a vacation? Or living with someone who is angry? Or on the train with them? Meditation does help and shielding, also ignoring it. That's it. You can't just avoid people.
Interesting bit about social media and how it can fuel angry. This is why I tend to avoid Twitter -- Twitter is VERY angry. And is constantly yelling and cursing at everyone. Facebook is somewhat less angry. Instagram is just pictures -- so no not really angry. DW...it depends, but not quite as angry.
2. Just finished watching the film directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodgriez, Tessa Thompson, and Oscar Issacs, called Annihilation -- which I would categorize as biological and psychological horror, with alien influence. Although I didn't really find it scary, so much as weirdly horrifying and beautiful at the same time.
Lena, Natalie Portman, is a doctor of biology, studying cancer cells -- when her husband who had been missing in action for a while, mysteriously reappears. Her husband, Oscar Issacs or Kane, had been on a secret mission. He returns oddly changed and then suddenly gets very ill with seizures. On the way to the hospital, Lena and her husband are taken into custody by the military. Apparently her husband had been part of a secret mission to investigate "the shimmer" -- something odd has taken over an area of the New England Coast -- a remote area with a lighthouse and a small village. They've quarantined it and evacuated people within a fifty mile radius -- stating it is a major chemical spill. No one has come in or out of it, except Lena's husband.
Lena joins an expedition of women scientists and researchers to investigate. All have problems. So it is a dysfunctional crew. And what they find inside forever changes them and they don't all make it out again.
It surprised me. I expected it to go one way, it went the other. And there were aspects that were creepy and beautiful at the same time. I wouldn't call it gross, or I didn't find it so. Just trippy and weirdly pretty, in an oddly horrifying way.
Portman is rather expressionless during most of it -- so it's hard to really care that much about her character. She plays it as if she's numb or in shock or a ghost of herself. Thompson and Rodriguez put the most into the performances, and feel the most present. Tuvy who plays Shepard is creepy. And Jennifer Jason Leigh -- is cold and bitchy, and difficult to like or care about. This results in a weird distancing from the film, and it is hard to be afraid for the characters or care that much. Not helped by the fact that you know from the very beginning that only Portman's character makes it out alive. The director seems to be more interested in the special effects and imagery, than his characters -- and this shows in both the slow pacing, and the inability to care all that much.
I enjoyed it in an intellectual sort of way, but it never truly engaged my emotions.
The reason I watched -- was the descriptions I'd read had intrigued me and I was admittedly curious. It is different from most of the horror that I've seen to date.
Should I provide more extensive spoilers? Eh no. Everything I've provided above you learn within the first fifteen minutes of the movie -- so they aren't really spoilers.
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Date: 2019-07-28 09:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-28 12:29 pm (UTC)She loved the book I wrote and encouraged me to publish it.
So, I wasn't drawn to her because of the self-destructive, addictive behavior -- I didn't even know it was there until I got to know her better.
I just chose to handwave it.