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From a press release: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NEW YORK:<\/strong> When there is turmoil in society, humanity experiences emotional turmoil. But the opposite can also be true, explains retired clinical psychologist Dr. Bruce Hutchison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Emotions can be the fuel that feeds society\u2019s turmoil in times of political or social upheaval. Can the cycle ever be broken?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his groundbreaking book, Emotions Don\u2019t Think: Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil<\/em>, Dr. Hutchison explores in depth the nature \u2014 and the power \u2014 of emotional contagion, its impact on society and how to stop the spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can\u2019t have turmoil without emotions, so we have to stop the spread of contagious toxic emotions to stop the turmoil in society,\u201d Dr. Hutchison said. \u201cThis book tells you how to do that without changing your position on an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emotions Don\u2019t Think<\/em> describes how to use systematic reasoning and critical thinking to put necessary limitations and stipulations on incoming emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn this book, I use my psychological knowledge to explain how to stem the flow of negative emotional contagion in our current social and political environment,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is important to know how to evaluate an emotion that comes at you in order to decide if it should be acted on as is, tempered, minimized or blocked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emotions Don\u2019t Think<\/em> presents a psychological perspective on events in contemporary society, with an emphasis on the effects of emotions and how they are contagious and impact the people who may absorb them. There are five chapters on overcoming the effects of contagious toxic emotions by using healthy psychological principles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is Dr. Hutchison\u2019s hope that these principles can be used to help society mitigate and cope with emotional contagion in this day and age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople use these emotions to think, but emotions can only feel,\u201d Dr. Hutchison added. \u00a0\u201cEmotions don\u2019t think.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”188″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”126″] [adrotate banner=”169″] From a press release: NEW YORK: When there is turmoil in society, humanity experiences emotional turmoil. But the opposite can also be true, explains retired clinical psychologist Dr. Bruce Hutchison. Emotions can be the fuel that feeds society\u2019s turmoil in times of political or social upheaval. Can the cycle ever be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[4515,4516,4517,4518],"class_list":["post-33879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-emotions","tag-new-york","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}