Positive emotions such as love, trust or other positively attributed feelings could be understood as catalysts in the coping and healing processes.
When asked directly, these women attributed feelings of sadness, worry and discouragement to their near-miss event, particularly when interviewed soon after birth.
The theory goes that a certain level of abstract self-awareness is required to attribute feeling to others and, since this happens as people learn what mirrors do, testing mirror recognition in animals might form a way of testing for empathy in other species.Animals including chimpanzees, gorillas and dolphins have demonstrated this characteristic.
But it is surely bordering on poor taste to attribute feelings to this couple in such circumstances.
[Dennett's Intentional Stance encompasses attributing feelings, memories and beliefs to others as well as mindreading and predicting what someone will do next.] Do you need a theory to ride a bike?
In addition, The National Survey of College Counseling Centers attributes feelings of depression and isolation to college students who constantly compare themselves to their classmates.
During my own undergraduate and graduate education in zoology and veterinary medicine I noticed that attributing feelings to animals was the kiss of death for a budding professional; because there were no real-life Dr. Doolittles in our midst, these were qualities that simply could not be experimentally proven.
While it is tempting to attribute feelings to these embryos, it must be remembered that the telencephalon is not yet morphologically distinct when the touch response first appears at around 21 h post-fertilisation (Hjorth and Key 2001; Saint-Amant 2006).
Because he attributed this feeling to his circumstances — and not to the fact that he was the sort of person who sensed buildings' having opinions — he believed that if he were somewhere else, especially somewhere where he was paid in dollars and thus was rich, he would be a different person and one whose life had meaning.
Empowerment also was attributed to feeling as though they could "hold their own" (Ann, 30 years) in the box and in society, further creating a sense of equality between men and women.
