Sentence examples for act of emotion from inspiring English sources

Connecting these crimes to a specific weapon, he argued, was an act of emotion, not journalism.

But foundations, like individuals, may act out of emotion.

He notes that rulers are less inclined than private persons to act on emotion and the thirst of vengeance.

Wayne Carley, executive director of the National Association of Biology Teachers, said many who oppose dissection "act on emotion rather than intellect".

Hence although emotions initially belong to the passive (they are not, like intentions, formed at will), older children are able to control their emotions and act out of emotions.

Act on emotions.

Acting on emotion can be damaging.

Does the character act on emotions or reason?

Show lack of emotion.

Chan and Harris complain, of serotonin, that 'it impairs or short-circuits moral reasoning and induces us to act on the basis of emotion rather than rational consideration of the moral and social consequences of those actions.' Status quo bias may or may not involve emotion, but it's a nice example of a psychological force that 'short-circuits moral reasoning'.

Successful problem solving, defined as the conscious act of modifying the emotion-eliciting situation or its consequences (Snyder, 2010; Spering, Wagener, & Funke, 2005), represents adaptive situation modification.