Tip 1: What role does humor play in a person's life?
Tip 1: What role does humor play in a person's life?
In ads about acquaintance among othersrequirements to the partner and men, and women often indicate a sense of humor. This fact makes us think about the colossal significance that people attach to this personal quality.
In the most general form, a sense of humor can be defined as the ability to notice in the phenomena of the surrounding world something funny, comic, emotionally responding to this side of being.
Place of sense of humor in the emotional sphere
A sense of humor refers to the sphere of higher feelings,which are connected with social phenomena. These are truly human feelings, while primitive emotional reactions are present in animals. Higher feelings are divided into moral, aesthetic and intellectual. A sense of humor can not be attributed to any of these categories. It reflects a person's attitude to the world, himself and other people, as moral feelings. It has an intellectual beginning, because any joke is a deliberate violation of logical connections. The category of the comic plays a big role in art, which connects humor with aesthetic feelings. The outward manifestation of a sense of humor is laughter. This reaction evolved from the specific sounds that the great apes produce during games. Such sounds are a signal that notifies partners in games that all their actions - even aggressive ones - the animal does not really. The psychic and social life of a person is incomparably more complicated than the relationship of monkeys, but the role of laughter and humor is similar to that of the monkey "protosmesh".The role of sense of humor
Manifestations of a sense of humor are akin to a game - a specialthe kind of human activity in which the goal is activity as such, the game does not pursue any other goals. Making a phenomenon a joke, a person takes it to the plane of the game, where there can not be any "serious" goals, attitudes and achievements, where everything is "make-believe". Becoming the subject of such a game, the object loses its significance. Thus, the main function of the sense of humor is to depreciate the phenomena of the surrounding world. This is said by K.Chapek, noting that there is a "humor of the gallows", but nowhere and there has never been coronation humor, because if the king joked over his rule, he would realized that it is not so great and glorious. The sense of humor is a "cure" not only from excessive pride, but also from fear: that which has lost its significance, can not frighten. That's why people write funny jokes about bloody dictators, and children's psychologists help children get rid of fears, finding something funny in frightening images. A sense of humor is a good help in establishing social contacts, destroying communication barriers by reducing their importance. In any social community humor acts as one of the cementing principles: ridiculing "others" (people who do not belong to a given nation, profession or other social group) help a person to feel deeper in their belonging to the group.Tip 2: The role of animals in human life
Brothers of smaller play an important role in human life. They provide people with food and raw materials, help in the economy and treatment of diseases, protect them from ill-wishers and just please the eye.
Thanks to animals, human evolution took place. Having tamed an animal, the hunter became the master. Since that time, he had to take care of his pet, organizing a household. To this day, human life is very dependent on animals.
Feed, drink and dress
Many people get food from animals. Meat of cows, pigs, sheep is used both in pure form and processed as ingredients for other products. Goat's milk is valued for its medicinal properties. And eggs of domestic chicken can be eaten without fear. In addition to domestic animals, some wild animals, such as elk and wild boar, are used as food. Fishery and beekeeping are of great importance not only for the food industry, but also for the medicinal industry. Sheep, goats, llamas and even dogs receive wool, from which warm things are made, warming in the frost. Goose down is an integral part of jackets and down jackets. Crocodiles and snakes are killed for valuable leather, from which expensive bags, shoes and accessories are made. Fur animals and animals with valuable fur are used for sewing fur coats.Help and protect
Strong animals have tamed for the help in an economy. An elephant, a donkey and a camel are used to carry heavy things over long distances. Cattle helps in plowing the land. Horses are an excellent transport. With the emergence of the need for protection, people began to train dogs, making them guards. Some useful insects protect the harvest in the gardens from parasites. In addition, animals on an instinctive level anticipate a danger and try to convey it to people. For example, there are cases when cats or dogs quickly leave buildings before collapsing, or elephants screaming and tearing chains before the tsunami in Thailand.Treat and make people kinder
Animals are also excellent healers. Cats, feeling the illness of the owner, lie down on a sore spot or just next to them, taking the energy of the illness on themselves. The dog's saliva has bactericidal properties, so quadrupeds often lick the abrasions and wounds of people. Therapy with horses and dolphins is used to rehabilitate and treat people with spinal cord injuries, muscles, and the nervous system. And the effectiveness of such treatment is often higher than with the use of drugs. Animals make people kinder, learn to care for and show compassion. Coming home after a hard day's work, you can relax under the soothing purr of your favorite cat. A dog will carefully bring slippers. Having a pet in a family with a small child will give the child a real friend.Tip 3: What is the sense of humor
A sense of humor is called intellectualthe ability of people to look at reality from several points of view, the ability to detect various contradictions in the world and to evaluate them from the comic or the comical side.
The use of laughter
Many researchers of the phenomenon of humor point out thatthe basis of a sense of humor is the ability to adequately perceive oneself and laugh at oneself. This behavior is regarded as a sign of highly developed intelligence and common sense. It is believed that a person laughing at himself, perceives himself comfortable enough or "accepts himself", despite the shortcomings. The ability to laugh at oneself means that a person recognizes the right to make mistakes. People with a sense of humor do not take offense if someone tries to laugh at them, because they have already done it themselves. It should be noted that the ability to laugh at your own failures deprives a person of unconstructive self-pity, has a positive effect on self-esteem and allows you to move on. The sense of humor can be considered the most effective antidote for fear. The ability to see the funny in frightening is one of the main abilities of an intelligent person. Funny can not be really menacing. There is a special kind of humor, which is called black. In fact, it represents a perfected defensive reaction to the complexity and inadequacy of the world around us. Black humor jokes on topics that are considered taboo in society. Disease, death, and war become much less frightening if you laugh at them well.Theory of Humor
Even in ancient Greece and Rome there were wholethe school of philosophers who explored this phenomenon and its impact on people. For example, the Roman philosopher Plotinus recommended his followers to perceive the world as a comedy, and himself as its hero. He believed that such an approach helps not take seriously everything that happens in life, find new points of view on all that has happened in it and admire ridiculous coincidences and accidents. Evolutionary psychology considers humor the result of sexual selection, because a sense of humor along with developed linguistic abilities and generosity is an indisputable sign of good genes and high intelligence. Many evolutionary psychologists suggest that humor can be something like a peacock's tail, which is needed to demonstrate good genes to females of its species. There is a rather large number of forms of humor: parody, irony, anecdote, pun, joke, satire and so on. Humor can be expressed not only in textual form, but also in a graphic form, for example, with the help of a cartoon or cartoon.Tip 4: The Emotional World of the Child
Many negative emotions of children and adolescentsnaturally overcome in the process of their maturation. Such emotions include, for example, anxiety before parting with close people, fear of suspense and others.
To help overcome these fears, the expansion of social ties - in social relations, the child learns to find the true causes of his fears.
It should be noted that in the life of the childsome fears are quickly replaced by others. Small children, having a concrete mindset, express their attitude to those objects that they encounter in reality ("I love my mother", "I hate garlic"). At teenagers, in process of development at them abstract thinking, there is a love to freedom, independence, intolerance to displays of injustice, etc.
As an object of love for a teenager canact native home, parents, friends, but especially dramatic in this age of love for members of the opposite sex. Love for a teenager is a prerequisite for establishing close, tender, spiritual relationships with a peer who is an ideal, an example for imitation. The object of love, as a rule, is authority, it is surrounded by a romantic aureole, which is fostered by the rich imagination of a teenager.
Studies Broderick, studied about 1000teenagers 10-11 years of age, show that many adolescents in the last year of life were in a state of falling in love with members of the opposite sex. About 50% of adolescents 12-13 years old and more than 70% of adolescents aged 16-17 are also in love.
According to Erickson, the first love for a teenageris a necessary condition for the formation of his self-esteem. In the object of love, the teenager seems to see his reflection. It is for this reason that many lovers spend so much time figuring out the ideals and attachments of their idol, while comparing themselves and their emotional world with the life of their partner.
The basis of true love isselflessness, willingness to give up any claims for the sake of one's feelings. Without a proper self-assessment, such feelings can not form. Accordingly, in order for a teenager to establish relationships with the object of his sympathy, so that he can understand and recognize his feelings, adults should, first of all, help him with the formation of his own adequate self-esteem.
