Emotions from a Behavioural Perspective: Understanding the Conditions, Not Just the Labels
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Emotions from a Behavioural Perspective: Understanding the Conditions, Not Just the Labels
This video explores a behaviour-analytic approach to understanding emotions and emotional experiences. The speaker argues that simply labelling one's own or others' emotions may not be the most important factor. Instead, it is crucial to examine the specific environmental conditions and contexts that lead to particular feelings.
The video discusses how the same emotional label (e.g. "anxious", or "frustrated") may represent very different internal experiences for different individuals based on their unique learning histories and personal contexts. Using the example of a dog's reaction to a child, the speaker illustrates how focusing on the antecedents and consequences related to an emotional state can provide more useful insights than just the emotion label itself.
Overall, this video offers a behaviour-based perspective on emotions, suggesting that identifying the functional relationships between environment and experience can empower people to better understand and change their own and others' emotional responses.
Canine Psychologist here from Canada - Love this video Chirag - well done explaining a complex concept simply - keep up the good work!
Much appreciated!
Love the explanation of labelling emotions- clever use of humour as always. Thank you for this
Glad you enjoyed it!
1 minute in and I want to hug you for putting this out there, and it just gets better and better...... become a detective....... absolutely. I hope this reaches a very wide audience.
Thank you, Chirag!
You are awesome!!
Awesome video and thank you so much for this food for thought! I study applied dog psychology and behaviorism and find it absolutely crucial (as you mentioned) to identify the A of the ABCs. However, we very much go into detail when it comes to basic emotions as identified by Panksepp, since they are always present and shape behavior as well. For example, I make a loud noise, the dog shies away since his genetically programmed „alarm mode“ goes off. So, some kinds of behaviors happen unconsciously - our brain works on „autopilot“ for a moment in order to protect ourselves. Secondly, once we understood the emotion behind a certain behaviour, it is easier for us to manage the dog‘s surroundings. If we have a dog that shows fearful behaviour a lot, we need to think of enriching his environment on top of training with activities that trigger playful and explorative behaviour since these neurotransmitters like dopamine can contain fearfulness. On top we train conditioned relaxation so we can help the dog to calm down easier.
I believe the emotional approach and the pure behaviorist approach need to go hand in hand - always considering the individual dog‘s needs.
Thanks again for your videos, they are rellay valuable for me!
Brilliant point but a very long winded way of saying look for the root cause behind the behaviour. Please start writing scripts to keep yourself on track Chirag. 😊