A Must Read for Anyone Curious About Political Turmoil in Society

EMOTIONS DON’T THINK:
Emotional Contagion in a Time of Turmoil

Bruce Hutchison, Ph.D.  

emotionsdonttthink.com; bruhut.com  

We live in a time when America and the world are facing an invisible enemy. The pandemic surged, and social relations are fraught with turmoil. We face global turmoil, and turmoil comes with emotions. Emotions are on edge; many people fear for their lives. Little has been written about the power of emotions and emotional contagion in this time of global turmoil until now.

Dr. Bruce Hutchison describes emotional contagion as one of the most powerful forces at play in society and politics in the last few decades, building to the 2020-21 crescendo and into 2022.  We need to learn about how to handle it to help us adapt to today’s stress. Dr. Hutchison’s book helps us learn how to do that.

In the book Dr. Hutchison talks about how emotional contagion contributes to social and political turmoil and how people can work at overcoming emotional contagion to lower the turmoil. The impact of emotions and feelings during social – political upheaval has been strong and he writes about how to manage them to lower their impact, in any future events, since they can get destructive.

Emotions are contagious and infectious and often spread from one person to another, so you can get infected by emotions when you are around people. This affects people during troubled times. Emotions don’t think and yet so many people base their decisions on emotions, including their votes.

People get emotional about what they believe, and so when their beliefs are criticized, challenged or even attacked, their emotions usually get riled up. This is natural. It is human nature. It happens to most of us. Feelings and emotions spread easily in society at these times. But we have to manage them for the betterment of all of us. Understanding how to manage them effectively helps lower the turmoil and destruction, since emotions drive actions.

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