Emotional Reasoning or Affect-as-Informationįrom cognitive psychology, we know that affective-emotional dispositions influence cognitive processes in different ways all, however, reinforce the assumptions that support that specific emotional state. What we want to address here is the influence of emotions on beliefs (i.e., representations, cognitions, assumptions) and how this could lead to the maintenance of pathological disorders. Specifically, the appraisal-based theories attest that both normal and abnormal emotional states are based on “a person’s subjective evaluation or appraisal of the personal significance of a situation, object, or event on a number of dimensions or criteria” (p. In this perspective, we will refer to the appraisal theories of emotions. In this paper, we will try to answer these crucial questions, examining the influence of emotions on some cognitive processes and how this can strengthen the beliefs at the basis of the emotional experience itself. The explanation of these phenomena is especially fundamental to any theory of pathological suffering and thus is also fundamental to clinical cognitivism. What maintains dysfunctional beliefs and psychological disorders as well as their resistance to change is a topical question for clinical and cognitive scientists. The purpose of this paper is to explore this topic by reviewing and discussing the main studies in this area, leading to a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. The findings on this topic have contributed to the debate that theorizes the use of emotional reasoning as responsible for the maintenance of dysfunctional beliefs and the pathological disorders based on these beliefs. Indeed, in several studies, it was found that adult patients suffering from psychological disorders tend to use negative affect to estimate the negative event as more severe and more likely and to negatively evaluate preventive performance. From this perspective, the more people experience a particular kind of affect, the more they may rely on it as a source of valid information. Pre-existing emotions may thus bias evaluative judgments of unrelated events or topics. Emotional reasoning, ex-consequentia reasoning, and affect-as-information are terms referring to the mechanism that can lead people to take their emotions as information about the external world, even when the emotion is not generated by the situation to be evaluated. You can also get help from support groups.One of the several ways in which affect may influence cognition is when people use affect as a source of information about external events. Finally, you should seek counseling, do some talk therapy or practice hypnosis. Third, you can always get some friends on days when you are struggling with the fear beyond normal days.Ĥ. What you need is ambient sounds that can distract your mind from thinking that you are alone.ģ. Second, you can always listen to some music, turn on the television and listen to some news or play some recordings of people talking. Thus you are avoiding the fueling of your phobia.Ģ. If you get sleep immediately, then you are not tossing around on your bed. If you don’t take short naps through the day, then you will be tired enough to go to bed and get some sleep. ![]() First, you should avoid sleeping during the day. Hasty decisions or making bad choices are going to backfire. You need to take a few steps that are healthy. ![]() To manage the fear of sleeping alone phobia, you need to be pragmatic. Those who have problems of anxiety, worrying comes very naturally and others who don’t have the problem will not relate to why the person is so anxious all the time.ġ. There could be incidents in the past that have caused this fear or one can be simply a victim of one’s own worries when there is actually no need to be anxious. Such a fear can stem from anxiety, from loneliness and being panicked due to some reason. It doesn’t matter whether you are sleeping or cooking, watching television or reading a back at your home. You cannot manage this fear unless you take care of the causes. There are a few causes of this fear of sleeping alone phobia. Unlike many other phobias that are directly related to the cause, such as fear of spiders or reptiles, fear of sleeping alone doesn’t have anything to do with sleeping or the nighttime. It is quite difficult to infer that it is a personality disorder or a psychological condition. ![]() Women are more vulnerable to this condition but men can also have the problem. There are many people who have a fear of sleeping alone. ![]() Fear of sleeping alone is a phobia and like most phobias, it is quite irrational but unavoidable for those who are affected by it.
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