• Question: How do people feel different emotions in the same conditions

    Asked by Mubsy to Fiona, Hazel, Jacque, K on 15 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Fiona Macfarlane

      Fiona Macfarlane answered on 15 Mar 2018:

      It probably depends on a few things. If a person has had similar experiences before they may react differently and it can also depend on how you interpret the situation.

      For example if you get shouted at for doing something wrong you would feel different depending on whether it was an accident, it was someone else’s fault or you did it on purpose.

    • Photo: Hazel Gibson

      Hazel Gibson answered on 16 Mar 2018:

      Different people feel different ways because of our life experiences. Humans have incredibly diverse life experiences and this radically affects the way we process different situations. Psychology researchers often test this by using people who have exactly the same genetic background – identical twins – but a different life experience. Just because you are the same as your twin genetically doesn’t mean that you are not afraid of dogs when they are afraid of snakes. It might be that one twin is more shy than the other, or one twin is more thrill-seeking. These experiments prove that who you are as a person is shaped very much more by your life experience than by your genetics.

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