Feelings
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Their
feelings
of anger and helplessness, compounded by poor education and soaring unemployment, often drove them toward alcohol and drugs.
But secularization, rationalization, and atomization of civil and social life, and the steady expansion of government into every social sphere, have lead to a privatization of culture and religion, reducing their potential to stimulate
feelings
of community, identity, and solidarity.
In support of that view, he pointed to “barbaric” conditions on death row, and the “horrible”
feelings
of uncertainty when one is under sentence of execution but does not know whether or when the sentence will be carried out.
For example, in 2011, psychologists at the University of Amsterdam who study Dutch attitudes toward Arab and German minorities discovered that the hormone oxytocin – which has been connected to
feelings
of trust and cooperation – can actually increase racial bias and xenophobia.
Palestinian militants from Gaza – an active arena of Israeli-Palestinian confrontation since Hamas gained control in 2007 – and jihadi terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda and the larger “global jihad” network penetrated Sinai, exploiting the government’s neglect of the region and inflaming the local population’s
feelings
of disenfranchisement.
They are being replaced with what the American comedian Stephen Colbert calls “truthiness”: the expression of gut
feelings
or opinions as valid statements of fact.
One may infer that such informal arrangements survive in real-world employment relationships because they reinforce our heartfelt
feelings
of good will toward each other.
By contrast, “psychosocial” theories suggest that it is the psychological experience of inequality – the
feelings
of inferiority or superiority generated by social hierarchies – that matters.
Unlike in the English-speaking world, liberalism has never been really popular on the European continent, and the conservatives have always appealed to the patriotic and religious
feelings
of their supporters.
A strong European voice, such as Nicolas Sarkozy’s during the French presidency of the EU, may make a difference, but only for six months, and at the cost of reinforcing other European countries’ nationalist
feelings
in reaction to the expression of “Gallic pride.”
Superficially, this makes morally motivated wars easier: scenes of misery on TV incite visceral emotional reactions and
feelings
of solidarity.
A man who has any "feminine" traits is "poco hombre": boys who dislike soccer, men who enjoy the opera or express unmanly
feelings
such as sadness or tenderness, husbands who help with the housework or tend to their children, are considered effeminate.
The WEF’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government, of which I am a part, has considered ways in which information technology can improve governance and reduce
feelings
of alienation among the governed.
Both probably consist of
feelings
that a community can only be its true self when it can be so without hindrance – in essence, when a community can decide its own fate.
Add to that the preferences of the refugees – who, after risking everything to get to Europe, have strong
feelings
about where they would like to settle – and the policy challenges are enormous, particularly in the short run.
But as the inhuman tenor of this century comes to condition our feelings, the terrible impotence of culture stands naked.
Developing-country citizens have been expressing similar
feelings
for much longer.
Conversely, some of China’s most disturbing moves can be chalked up to exaggerated
feelings
of insecurity.
Rising “soft” dictators – what the journalist Bobby Ghosh calls authoritarian democrats – have used these
feelings
of unease and alienation to attract votes.
Feelings
of fear occur when a possible source of harm is nearby or likely to present itself, while
feelings
of anxiety usually involve the possibility of harm in the future.
On the other hand, the systems that produce conscious experiences, including
feelings
of fear and anxiety, involve evolutionarily new regions of the neocortex that are especially well developed in the human brain and poorly developed in rodents.
Conscious
feelings
are also dependent on our unique linguistic capacities – our ability to conceptualize and name our inner experiences.
Consequently, though animal studies are useful in predicting how a drug will affect nonconsciously controlled symptoms triggered by threatening stimuli, they are less effective when it comes to conscious
feelings
of fear or anxiety.
Start with nonconscious exposures (using subliminal stimulation to bypass conscious thoughts and
feelings
that can be aroused and interfere with the exposure process) to dampen the response of areas like the amygdala.
Despite this acute awareness of the enduring impact of its own humiliations, China often fails to recognize how its own past actions might have spurred similar
feelings
in others.
Individuals who display such behavior are often masking intolerable
feelings
of powerlessness, inadequacy, and an overwhelming need for approval that can curdle into violent destructiveness under pressure.
Imagined communities, patriotic traditions, religious
feelings
were either secondary or unreal concerns.
This dualism of human spirit and physical body implied that brain-based explanations for problems affecting motor movement and language were possible, but that personality, feelings, and beliefs existed in the realm of the spirit.
If the goal of therapy is to alter thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, then psychotherapists are attempting to change the physical architecture of the brains of their clients.
In effect, such
feelings
of national betrayal served to transform China's cult of national shame from a useful tool of government propaganda into a two-edged sword wielded against the government itself.
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