Category Archives: SocSci – Understanding the Self

What I found fascinating about this unit was Barbara Frederickson’s Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions. It talked about how having positive emotions could have positive snowball effects on our lives and how it could create a cycle. First, having positive emotions could widen novel or new thoughts, activities and relationships. In effect, it could buildContinue reading “Entry #4: The Mindful Self”

After taking up “The Feeling Self”, I was able to gain a lot of knowledge about emotions and depression. Some of the key things that I learned was: (1) The process on how our emotions are actually experienced and produced; (2) The distinctive basic emotions; (3) The basic emotions themselves; (4) Display rule; (5) TheoriesContinue reading “Entry #3: The Feeling Self”

Being a sneaker-head at this day and age isn’t as easy as being one during the previous 4 or 5 decades simply because of the photo attached above. Before, new sneakers would be released per year. An example would be the Jordan line wherein a new model would be released annually indicated by a number.Continue reading “Entry #2: The Thinking Self”

After learning about the Bioecological Theory, it made me come to realize that my best friend, which is Richmond Chua, had a huge impact on my development as a person in our everyday interactions throughout high school. Through his actions and thoughts, I learned not to be too serious and critical about everything in lifeContinue reading “Entry #1: Bioecological Theory and Globalization”