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1. Can people subconsciously effect your decisions? Are there ways to manipulate a persons decision?

2. Gut Almighty

3. Carlin Flora

4. [|Link]

5. Accessed June 2, in the Bridgewater Raritan computer lab

6. Subject - Gut decisions and how and why we make them, there applications in life Occasion - perhaps people wanting to know about gut decisions or a new discovery in the matter, also possibly a personal experience. Audience - people who have to make decisions for a living, students who must question their gut feelings on test and quizzes Purpose - To teach the audience about why and how people make gut decisions, and advise them on when these decisions in life should be applied and when people should be cautious about following their guts Speaker - Carlin Flora, Psychology today Tone - cautionary, insightful

7. This article primarily focuses on gut decisions. The author uses an analogy to compare gut decisions to a person quickly sorting through a file cabinet and pulling out information, however the file cabinet in your brain is your experiences. The article continues by talking about intuition and role emotion plays. The other uses sources to prove that making a decision without the use of emotion takes away all gut intuition and allows only a completely rational analytical decision to be madder. Following the explanation of gut feelings the author shows how useful they could be in everyday life.

8.Gut feelings are formed from a visual or verbal cue and the feelings are your bodies immediate emotional response to the decision based on prior experience.

9. I agree with the authors statements. From personal experience i know that a lot of the time on test my gut feeling is usually the right choice because that is my minds immediate reaction based off of what I already know. I also agree with the statement that emotion and intuition can not be separated.

10. "Intuitions, or gut feelings, are sudden, strong judgments whose origin we can't immediately explain." "The brain takes in a situation, does a very quick search of its files, and then finds its best analogue among the stored sprawl of memories and knowledge." "That visceral punch in the paunch is testament that emotions are an intrinsic part of all gut feelings." "Emotion guides how we learn from experience; if you witness something while your adrenaline is pumping, for instance, it will be remembered very vividly." "When a new experience calls up a similar pattern, it doesn't unleash just stored knowledge but also an emotional state of mind and a predisposition to respond in a certain way." "Encased in certainty, intuitions compel us to act in specific ways, and those who lack intuition are essentially cognitively paralyzed."

1. Do our past experiences ultimately determine our future? Does everything happen for a specific reason?

2. Does Everything Happen For A Reason?

3. Paul Thagard

4. Link

5. Accessed June 3rd online at home

6. Subject: The idea of everything happening for a reason Occasion: Controversy over the idea of gods will, possibly the annoyance the speaker felt with people who felt differently than him. The theme of predetermination Audience: readers of psychology today, readers of his book Hot Thought anyone involved in the debate of unpredictability Purpose: To educate on misconceptions about reasoning reality and coincidence, to input his voice and opinion into the conversation about determination. Speaker: Paul Thagard Tone: Accusatory, a little condescending, Argumentative and strong

7. This source begins by providing a reason that people believe things happen for a reason, the reason being it is a way to deal with hardship. It continues forward relating the idea that everything happens for a reason to old religious age idea of gads will. Next the source introduces the idea of casual chains and these events being the un predictable coincidental intersection of these casual chains. This idea is taken further through the use of the real world example of the earthquake in haiti.

8. Things in reality happen because of the unpredictable accidental crossing of casual chains of events, not because of predestined reasons.

9. This article introduced me to the idea of the intersection of casual chains of events causing events. The author explained that these intersections are often completely unforeseeable causing unexpected accidents the part of this theory i am not completely persuaded by is the unpredictability. I wonder if there is a way possibly through the introduced idea of quantum physics and mechanics to predict these crossings.

10. "<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Even if events that affect human lives do not happen by quantum chance, many of them should be viewed as happening by accident, in the sense that they are the improbable result of the intersection of independent causal chains." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;">" Neither history nor seismology are random, but their intersections often are so unforeseeable that we should call them accidental." "<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In history, economics, biology, and psychology, we should always be willing to consider evidence for the alternative hypothesis that some events occur because of a combination of chance, accidents, and human irrationality." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"It can be distressing to think that bad things happen merely through chance or accident. But they do."