Summary
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Response
As usual, we will discuss Rogers and Zemach's question in a comment, giving us a more permanent record of our ideas in addition to getting in some practice writing for fluency in a less academic style, but still writing our ideas in grammatically complete sentences that clearly state our ideas.Both of the critical thinking questions here are likely to stimulate ideas that will be useful in the coming writing task for this unit, so it will be worthwhile to read and think about your classmates' ideas responding to the same questions.
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Question
- What are some reasons that people [human beings] might have evolved to make emotional decisions more quickly than intellectual decisions?
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Reference
- Rogers, L. & Zemach, D. E. (2018). Skillful 3: Reading & Writing (2nd. ed.). London: Macmillan Education
Why has evolution programmed us to make emotional decisions very quickly, while our intellectual decisions often take time? We often decide, for example, whether we like someone or not far more quickly than we can get to know them. Why?
ReplyDeleteMy first idea is that for early humans, society was really important. We are not strong animals: chimpanzees, lions, and elephants are all stronger than we are. Humans can only survive because they make strong societies. Actually, cimpanzees, lions and dogs also live in societies in nature, and they all have emotions to make their social groups function. Dogs don't have to be able to undertand Pythagoras's theorem, but they to need to be able to decide very quickly whether to fight or surrender: an emotional response. Chimpanzees don't design rockets, but they need to decide whether to challenge the old leader or to submit to him, and whether to have sex with that handsome new male who just joined the group: these are emotional decisions that help the group function smoothly. The same applies to lions, and I think to humans. We needed emotions to automatically and quickly make decisions that enable us to live in societies. Intellectual decisions are important today, but 200,000 years ago, we did not need to deide which commodity would increase in value, or how to program a smartphone, or how to stock supermarkets with products from around the world. For most of our history, emotional thinking was far more important than intellectual thinking, even though our intellectual ability is what has enabled us to become masters of the planet Earth.
I think one reason that people sometime need to make decision based on their emotions because they don't have enough information or facts or they may be unsure about how accuracy on those information is. This situation often happen to me. For example, I wanted to buy a car and I had lots of information on cars in the markets, but their quality and prices were the same. So I was quite confused and was unable to make up my mind to buy which one. In the end, I bought a Toyota car from a nice sale representative who was helpful to me. I think sometime information or facts don't help.
ReplyDeleteI think people make emotion decision quickly than intellectual decision because emotion tell what you fell and it can know what you think in that time.
ReplyDeleteEmotional can effect our decisions or sometimes can control our thoughts. However, bad emotions might leads to a bad decision too. For example, anger can gives too much confidence and make you decide something quickly without thinking about the consequences of your decision. On the other hand, people who feel happy are more relax and have more time to think before they decide to do something. So. they won't likely to take risks. Nevertheless, positive feelings can lead us to an inappropriate decision as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that this answers the questions. Why have we evolved to make emotional decisions if they have the problems that the reading points out?
DeleteThey can make emotional decisions more quickly because they no need to find logic thoughts or the rational reason to support, just follow their experience. For example, if you want to choose a dessert cafe, you just follow your good experience. But if you need to make intellectual decisions, you need to list how good they are? Why should you make this decision? Will you feel bad after then?
ReplyDeleteBecause of that, it quite takes more time to make the support thoughts and you need to think very carefully before you make intellectual decisions.
In my opinion, I think evolved emotional decisions more quickly than intellectual decisions because people can use the intellectual decision well but sometime when the people meet with problem that they can't handle with it. The people have good first impression, they will have a good decision but if they have a bad first impression, they will have a bad decision. However, I think we can practice to use intellectual decisions.
ReplyDeleteSee my reply to Hana's comment above. If these problems exist, why do we do it? Why do we rely on emotional intelligence to make important decisions, even when it can be wrong or disastrous?
DeleteIn my opinion, making quickly emotional decisions may help people to notify their feelings and control their further decisions easier. For example, angry will drop person's critical thinking skill. If people know that they are angry, they should not make decision immediately because there is a risk with nagative results. That is the reason why I think people should evolve their emotional thinking abilities.
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