By
Wiwien Dinar Pratisti
Fakultas Psikologi
Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta
pengantar
- Why introduce into science an unneeded term, such as emotion, when there are already scientific terms for everything we have to describe?
- I predict: the “will†has virtually passed out of our scientific psychology today; the emotion is bound to do the same.
- In 1950 American Psychologist will smile at both these terms as curiosities of the past (pendapat yang kontra dengan pembahasan tentang emosi)
- The emotions have always been of central concern to men.
- In every endeavor, in every major human enterprise, the emotion are somehow involved.
- Almost every great philosopher from Aristotle to Spinoza, from Kant to Dewey, from Bergson to Russell has been concerned with the nature of emotion and has speculated and theorized about its origins, expressions, effects, its place in the economy oh human life.
- Theologians have recognized the significance of certain emotions in connection with religious experience and have made the training of emotions a central, if implicit, part of religious training.
- Writers, artists, and musicians have always attempted to appeal to the emotions, to affects and move the audience through symbolic communication.
- And the development in the last half century of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychosomatic medicine has brought the role of emotion in health and disease sharply to our attention (pendapat yang mendukung pentingnya mempelajari emosi) Read the rest of this entry »
