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Emotional Contagion: What It Is and How to Avoid It
Tips on Staying Positive
- Surround yourself with things that make you happy
- Send back positivity to others
- Practice self-awareness to recognize what is happening in the present moment better
- Laugh out loud
- Try not to take things personally.
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Avoiding talking about your feelings
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Judging your own feelings
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Trying to control your emotions
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There are six basic emotions
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Emtion: The concept
- In the 1950s, psychologists were focused on behaviourism while mostly ignoring emotions.
- The word "emotion" did not exist in the English language until the early 17th century.
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- In the early 19th century, Scottish philosopher Thomas Brown was the first to propose emotion as a theoretical category. However, he was unable to define it.
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