Solution sPro Here is Part II of the Psychology assignment as we discussed. Thank you for your continued help. Your are the best! Part II: DB Responses to classmates: Crystal Scott Re:Unit4 - Discussion Board How do emotions affect critical thinking? “Each human emotion mobilizes the mind and body to meet one of the challenges of living and reproducing in the cognitive niche. Some challenges are posed by physical thins, and the emotions that deal with them, like disgust, fear, and appreciation of natural beauty work in straightforward ways. Others are posed by people. The problem in dealing with people is that people can deal back. The emotions that evolved in response to other people’s emotions, like anger, gratitude, shame, and romantic love, are played on a complicated chessboard, and they spawn the passion and intrigue that misleads the Romantic” (Pink 1977). Emotions play a big role in critical thinking; emotions have a tendency to guide us in everything we do. From crossing the street, to going a particular way to work or school, you know that if you cross without looking the possibility would be to get hit by a car, or going to work or school you travel the same route every day, but lately you go a different route because you know that the road is under construction. When you thinking of these things before you leave, you are, planning a new way to work and leaving earlier to be there on time. And when crossing the street you look both ways before you cross, this is learned at a very early age, so it becomes a natural instinct to do any time you are crossing a street. But there are times perhaps, you are not thinking, because you are talking on your phone or with a friend and forgetting what you are doing. I am pretty sure we have all done this at one point or another in our lives and that is you are driving down the road, a road you have traveled many times, the weather is nice and the radio is going and you are just cruising before you know it you are going over the speed limit. You look up and see blue lights in your rear view mirror, now the thinking comes in, how do you explain this one. Yes, it happened to me, was going into town and knew the cops sit on that road, but was enjoying the weather and the music playing and not paying attention to my foot on the pedal. When the cop says, “Do you know how fast you were going?” I honestly could not answer him, I was only going about 10 miles over (but still over). He asked me why I was going so fast. My answer was honestly I was just enjoying the weather and the music and not paying attention. I was lucky because he said since I was actually honest about it; he let me off with a warning. Saved me money! This is where emotions affected my critical thinking, because I was not thinking, I was in a happy, energetic, and general feel good mood, enjoying the weather and the music, I traveled faster then I should have, had I been paying attention to the speed limit signs I would not .