Sonnet 73 - Attitude

€œATTITUDE”

Is attitude defined by our surroundings, for example the people we communicate with, or are very close to?

To my knowledge we as people do not realize the impact that individuals who are close to us, have on our lives. The results of many recent studies suggest that given time, roommates and couples often develop similar emotional reactions to situations. Therefore it seems to make relationships stronger and last longer.

“I think this process occurs because it benefits relationships,” says study author Cameron Anderson, Ph.D., a visiting assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Illinois. “Emotional similarity increases solidarity, whereas emotional dissimilarity increases discomfort and the likelihood of interpersonal conflict.”

When dating, the dominant partner in a relationship changed less than the partner who had more power, according to the research. With roommates, the shyer of the two changed emotionally.

Anderson also found that the closer the friendship, the stronger the convergence of emotions.

In the study, Anderson interviewed 60 heterosexual couples, asking them about their personalities, their happiness with the relationship and the balance of power. Six months later the 38 couples that were still together repeated the experiment. To better understand roommates, the researchers tracked college students living on campus, at the beginning and end of a school year. To gauge their emotional similarity, researchers observed their emotional reactions to a movie.

While people do seem to take on the other person's traits to some degree, compatible emotions may have drawn them together in the first place, Anderson says. He notes that the couples that stayed together were more emotionally similar in the first place.Is attitude defined by our surroundings; the people we communicate with, or are very close to?

Attitude is more important than facts. Attitude how does it affect people in our societ? It affects people by changing their mood, and the way they handle situations. According to Charles Swindell, people are now convinced that life is ten percent of what happens to people and ninety percent of how people react to it. What people mean by this, is that most of what happens to people is because of the way they react. The other part of life is what happens because of the reaction. Another simple way of putting it, is that attitudes control what happens in everyday situations. There are many places where attitude affects people.

In our society it is ok to for everyone to have be different, because for one we do not have such a strict society as some. We have different religions and in our country we are characterized as free. One such place is at school.