Emotional Ignorance: Lost and found in the science of emotion

Product Information

I have been thinking a lot lately about dog ownership. Specifically, how much more organised and regimented it is now, compared to when I was younger, in the 1990s. Lord knows how different it was before then. I’ve been thinking about this because, as … The event will take place on the first floor and there is step-free access from the street via lift.

Emotional Ignorance: Dean Burnett breaks down science behind

The study of emotions has become central in sociology over the past decades ( Bericat, 2016). According to Wharton (2009) sociological literature on emotional labor can be roughly divided into studies that use emotional labor to understand the organization, structure, and social relations of service jobs. Furthermore, emotional labor has also been used to understand the efforts of individuals to express and regulate emotions but also the consequences of those efforts. This paper focuses on how employees manage their emotions at the workplace. But while a great deal of research has focused on how emotional labor is gendered, it is, as argued by Humphrey (2021) also “raced”, although racialized emotional labor is an unseen burden among public-sector employees and this suggests a need to examine the intersection of race and emotional labor. It is from this perspective we use racialized emotional labor in this paper to reflect on how ethnic minority healthcare staff describe how they manage their emotions when they encounter racism at work. Other work bolsters the connection. In a study from 2011 Beate M. Herbert, a research scientist now at the University of Ulm in Germany, and her colleagues tested 88 women and 67 men for alexithymia and measured their interoception by asking them to count how many times their heart beat in a minute (people with poor interoception tend to fare worse on this task). The team confirmed that interoceptive sensitivity was inversely associated with all facets of alexithymia. Moreover, in March 2013 a Japanese research group found that neural pathways relating to awareness of both bodily and emotional states overlap, leading the authors to conclude that awareness of emotions requires interoception. For many minority healthcare workers, expressions of patients’ racial preferences are painful and degrading indignities, which cumulatively contribute to moral distress and burnout ( p: 710). Need to cancel an existing donation? (It's okay — life changes course. I treasure your kindness and appreciate your However, one of the few things they’ve found thus far that everyone agrees on is that emotions are complicated. Often eye-wateringly so (literally, in the case of psycho-emotional tears). Indeed, despite them being a fundamental component of the human mind since such a thing has existed, there is still no accepted and robust scientific definition of emotion. And not for want of looking for one.It’s actually wrong of me to say that emotions have no part to play in science. A great deal of science is about emotions. Affective neuroscience and emotional psychology are ever-expanding disciplines, shedding ever more light on the true nature of emotions. The GP then asked the nurse to ask his colleague, an ethnic majority Swedish doctor, to take care of the patient in exchange for one of his patients. The patient had a bleeding hemorrhoid. The nurse informed the other doctor, what had happened, and the doctor then told the patient: A midwife, who had presented herself during the interview as a strong personality, nonetheless elaborated the quandary and consequent emotional labor involved in her work. She described how she sometimes has to listen to her colleagues talking negatively about patients who are migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The midwife talked about how she is sometimes asked to interpret for patients from Somalia, as she is originally from Somalia herself. She described how what she hears in the room as an interpreter was upsetting because patients were not being treated properly:

Emotional Intelligence: Origins and Theories - CORE Emotional Intelligence: Origins and Theories - CORE

Alinia M. (2020). White Ignorance, Race, and Feminist Politics in Sweden. Ethnic Racial Stud. 43 ( 16), 249–267. 10.1080/01419870.2020.1775861 An ethnic minority midwife talked about the ethical dilemmas arising from the duty of caring for patients who are hostile. She described an incident where a patient refused to be taken care of by her, so the senior midwife in charge swapped her for another midwife, while telling her not to take it personally. The midwife then explained the ethical dilemma of meeting patients who do not want to be cared for by her as follows: All electronic equipment, especially mobile phones, must be set to silent before entering the Theatre and/or any other spaces where events are taking place. Smoking The doctor who was rejected by the patient had to join the colleague in jointly treating the patient. The ethnic minority doctor was the more qualified for the condition the patient suffered from and, as he also argued, he could not refuse because, as a doctor he has a duty of care for the patient, no matter how offensive they are. Neither could he say ‘no’ to his colleague’s request to co-treat the patients, as this might have had other consequences.

Alexithymia is a personality trait marked by an inability to recognize internal emotional states and limited internal thinking. Yes, trauma in the past could be caused by altered emotional development. Traumatic episodes, neglect, or abuse can manifest as difficulty in emotional regulation and fear of attachment in adulthood. They may also respond aberrantly to stressors or triggers. In fact, those involved in emotion research are currently debating whether we all have distinct, ‘basic’ emotions, or we construct all our emotions, essentially in the moment, from a more basic raw neurological substrate called ‘affect’. Payne, Wayne Leon (1985). A Study of Emotion: Developing Emotional Intelligence; Self-Integration; Relating to Fear, Pain and Desire. Dissertation, The Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities

Emotional Ignorance | Psychology Today Australia

The patient then stood up and went to request another doctor at the clinic’s reception, where he was directed to another doctor. The new doctor however told the patient he should do what the first doctor had said. Finally, the patient said he was going to visit a larger hospital instead. The GP noted that the patient seemed to want to consult any other doctor who was a majority ethnic Swede. The GP trivialized the patient’s refusal to accept his medical authority by saying the patient was not clear in the head. Kierkegaard once noted that “Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate”, astutely observing the power of negative emotions to get things done. And this applies to scientists as much as anyone. Moreso, if anything. Hochschild A. R. (2012). The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkley and Los Angeles:

Patients’ racial preferences, micro-aggression and racial slurs were said to be stressful for healthcare staff, and the resulting stress for example, led in the case of the dentist, to the need for psychological care, a point also articulated by Kimani Paul-Emile et al. (2016) in the following way: In yet another case, a dentist explained how a patient blamed immigrants for being in Sweden and illegitimately consuming social welfare in the following way: