This suggests one way of controlling or dominating my emotion: think about something else, or think differently about this object (Greenspan 2000).
Though Southwest was top ranked in the first two categories -- meaning the airline was flexible and helpful to its customers -- Alaska dominated the emotion category, which charts how people felt about their experience on board overall.
Such a range may improve physical and mental health by "preventing an overabundance or prolonging of any one emotion from dominating an individuals' emotional life," they write.
If fear is our dominant emotion, our knee-jerk reaction will be to not act because our brain chemistry is dominated by the fear of loss.
And according to psychologists who treat narcissism as a mental disorder, it is fear, more than its other features – shamelessness, arrogance, self-centredness, lack of trust and a chronic need for validation – that is the primary emotion dominating and dictating the narcissist's life and conduct.
The continued suffering and occupation of Palestinians continues to dominate the emotions and collective mindset of Muslims worldwide and serves as a major grievance against the US.
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
We get the following basic results: First, as the material payoffs of one game grow arbitrarily large, the outcome of that game dominates the emotions of reciprocity of the players who play in the other game.
If the stakes in one game are much higher in one game in relation to the other, the outcome of that game is going to dominate the emotions of the players also in other games.
We treat them as mere vehicles to get the message across, yet words not only define the world around us, they can dominate our emotions and mental processes at the same time.
