Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-10-2016
Publication Title
Edutopia International Online Magazine
Additional Publication URL
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/emotions-affect-learning-behavior-relationships-lori-desautels
Abstract
We need all of our emotions for thinking, problem solving, and focused attention. We are neurobiologically wired, and to learn anything, our minds must be focused and our emotions need to "feel" in balance. Emotional regulation is necessary so that we can remember, retrieve, transfer, and connect all new information to what we already know. When a continuous stream of negative emotions hijacks our frontal lobes, our brain's architecture changes, leaving us in a heightened stress-response state where fear, anger, anxiety, frustration, and sadness take over our thinking, logical brains.
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Recommended Citation
Desautels, Lori, "How Emotions Affect Learning, Behaviors, and Relationships" (2016). Scholarship and Professional Work – Education. 97.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/coe_papers/97
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