Title: 10 Common Myths About Emotions (and Why They're Wrong) | Psychology Today
Headings: 10 Common Myths About Emotions (and Why They're Wrong)
Shahram Heshmat Ph.D.
10 Common Myths About Emotions (and Why They're Wrong)
9. "I will always feel this way."

Content: They misread and misname them. And, of course, they misread other people’s emotions, particularly when their perception is colored by their own preferences or prejudices. Consider the emotionally complex situation of divorce. Experts note that husbands’ reactions are often dominated by anger, an emotion that allows them to maintain confident and dominant position. A therapeutic goal is to help men recognize that some of their negative affect may come from sadness, hurt feelings, and fear, emotions that are more painful and scary and that they may be motivated to avoid. Misattributions usually disappear when people are made aware of the true source of their affective states. 6. Emotions are stupid. Emotion and reason are not competing forces but complementary processes that interact and influence each other. Accumulated evidence shows that emotion is part of the mechanism of reasoning, and so a lack of it is detrimental to decision-making.