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. Emotional Ignorance‘s introduction, for one, vividly describes how I suspect all writers feel when they actually sit down and write. It goes on to examine how pleasure and pain tread a fine line (one reason, Burnett suggests, why 50 Shades Of Grey was so popular – and so badly written), in the process expelling various myths around BDSM practises. Taboo feelings are questioned, then explained, in a way laypeople can understand; the importance of dreaming, even nightmares, to one’s memory is put into context. By attending a Royal Institution event, audience members consent to being filmed, livestreamed, recorded and photographed. Audience members grant the Royal Institution the right to use recordings of any type made of their attendance in any and all media, and by means of publicity and promotion relating to the Royal Institution. School parties should ensure that appropriate parental permission is obtained before attendance at any Royal Institution event. But smell is different. With smell, it’s our first, or earlier, experiences of something that has the more enduring influence on our memories and feelings. Presumably this is to do with the much bigger and more direct impact smell has on the relevant brain systems, something tempered by familiarity. Therefore, if the first time we smell something leads to a happy experience, it will probably bring up happy memories whenever we smell it, regardless of what happens in the future. Wharton A. S. (2009). The Sociology of Emotional Labor. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 35 ( 1), 147–165. 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115944

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Het onderwerp van het boek is heel interessant, maar ik vond de uitwerking wat minder. Ik had het idee dat de schrijver, doordat hij zelf wetenschapper is, soms dingen te moeilijk beschreef voor de ‘gewone mens’. Hij zit zelf waarschijnlijk al zo diep in de stof dat het daardoor moeilijk is het in ‘Jip en Janneke’-taal uit te leggen. Soms gebruikte hij bijvoorbeeld allerlei namen van verschillende gebieden in de hersenen, wat naar mijn idee vaak overbodig was en dus niet perse nodig. Het maakte het juist onduidelijker naar mijn idee. Stafford N. (2010). Surgeon Who Refused to Operate on Man with Swastika Tattoo Should Not Be Disciplined, Says German Medical Association. BMJ 341, c7279. 10.1136/bmj.c7279

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Although employed as a tutor and lecturer by the Cardiff University Centre for Medical Education in his day job, Dean is best known for his satirical science column ‘Brain Flapping‘ at the Guardian, and his internationally acclaimed debut book ‘The Idiot Brain‘. Thomas's patient suffered from more than just depression—he also has alexithymia, a personality trait characterized by deficits in the ability to identify and describe one's emotions. People high in this trait also tend to think in concrete, utilitarian terms rather than in a way that emphasizes insight and internal experience, and they have a limited capacity for imagination, fantasies and dreams. I have never been a smoker. Even from a very young age, I’ve been actively repelled by it. I confess I did eventually try a cigarette as a drunken student, largely due to peer pressure, and ended up with a scorched larynx and a mouth that tasted like a neglected car’s exhaust, which just reaffirmed my opinions on the matter.

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Ik had gehoopt dat er ook soms tips in zouden staan over hoe je met bepaalde emoties om kunt gaan, maar dit was niet echt het geval. Sullivan S., Tuana N. (2007). Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. [ Google Scholar] The assumption is that emotional insight might be either unnecessary or in essence unteachable, lying beyond reason or method, an unreproducible phenomenon best abandoned to individual instinct and intuition. We are left to find our own path around our unfeasibly complicated minds — a move as striking (and as wise) as suggesting that each generation should rediscover the laws of physics by themselves. Art by Mouni Feddag for a letter by Alain de Botton from A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader. Available as a print. The patient came first. So, after they took blood and the patient left, the supervisor told me: ‘You know, we face a lot of people like this every day. So, you should never take it personally. Just, put it behind you and just keep going, because at the end of the day if you are going to take everything personally, you are going to feel very bad about it.’ But I was crying, because I, in a normal case, I would be very … like, I would be angry, and I would speak about it. And don’t forget as well, being a student, means that you have a very low … you are at the bottom of this hierarchy. So, we don’t have a lot of power within that. So, I have to accept it and swallow it, after my supervisor … which is not easy, and then afterwards, it’s just like people continue.… it’s very depressing actually, because when you go home, you are just totally damaged of this and angry . Bain Z. (2018). Is There Such a Thing as 'white Ignorance' in British Education? Ethics Education 13 ( 1), 4–21. 10.1080/17449642.2018.1428716