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Distinguishing Judgments from Feelings

We can distinguish judgments from feelings.

A feeling can be operationally defined as a reaction to a realization of a desire or fear. When an individual gets what he wants (when he gets what he desires), he typically reacts with good feelings of happiness, i.e. with the emotional reaction of happiness and the impulsive reaction to celebrate; when an individual does not get what he wants (when an individual gets what he fears), he typically reacts with bad feelings of unhappiness as sadness, anger, or/and fear and with an impulsive reaction to give up inre sadness, to attack himself or/and someone or something else inre anger, or to run away from himself or/and someone or something else.

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A judgment can be operationally defined as a choice inre an action or reaction to take inre getting or not getting what is wanted (desired) or not-wanted (feared).

An individual has standards for what he wants and does not want.

If an individual perceives, recognizes, and evaluates the realization who/which is a person, object or event who/which meets his standards for someone or something or some action (event) which is wanted, then the individual makes a judgment that the person, object or event is desirable and takes action to get (achieve, obtain, establish a relationship with) that person, object or event, which is observable by his approach behavior towards that desirable person, object or event and by his positive emotional reaction of happiness ranging from contentment to joy.

If an individual perceives, recognizes, and evaluates the realization who/which is a person, object or event who/which meets his standards for someone, something or some action (event) which is not-wanted, then the individual makes a judgement that the person, object or events is undesirable and takes action to get away from (not achieve, obtain, establish a causal relationship with) that person, object or event, which is observable by his avoidance behavior away from that undesirable person, object or event and by his emotional reaction of unhappiness as sadness, anger or/and fear and his impulsive reactions as giving up inre sadness, attacking himself or someone or something else inre anger, or/and running away from himself or someone or something else inre fear.

Studies are showing that judgments can be made subconsciously and an individual only becomes aware he has made subconscious judgments when he realizes that he is (A) in motion to achieve who/what he wants (who/what he desires) or avoid who/what he does not want (who/what he fears) and (B) he has an emotional reaction and an impulsive reaction inre anticipating getting what he wants or not getting what he wants.

Subconscious judgments are subconscious decisions, which are part of the problem-solving process.

A problem is learning/deciding how to achieve a desire (get who/what is wanted) or avoid a fear (not get who/what is not wanted).

The Problem-Solving Process

1. State the problem (define what is the desire to be achieved/fear to be avoided, who/what is wanted or who/what is not wanted).
2. Generate alternative solutions to the problem.
3. Evaluate the positives/pros/desirable consequences and negatives/cons/undesirable consequences inre each alternative.
4. Choose the alternative with the better/best positive/pros and/or the fewer/fewest negatives/cons.
5. Implement the decision—try the chosen solution.
6. Evaluate the actual consequences to determine if or not the chosen solution solves the problem; if not, then repeat Steps 2-6.

The decision-making process consists of Steps 3-4 of the problem-solving process.

Both the problem-solving and decision-making processes can occur subconsciously as well as consciously.

Successes and mistakes can occur when an individual makes judgments/decisions regardless of whether he makes conscious or subconscious judgments.

Ex: Inre the desire to avoid getting a lemon/fear of getting a lemon inre making a decision inre getting a car, and individual can get/not get a lemon by making a judgment between a snazzy yellow convertible or a stodgy station wagon (or SUV), both of which will satisfy his desire for a car.

Logic in the form of If P, Then Q logical arguments/syllogisms can be employed inre the decision-making process within the problem-solving process.

P = Conditions/Causes
Q = Consequence(s)/Effect(s)

When evaluating the imagined/intuited consequences of each alternative solution, the individual can create If P, Then Q syllogisms thus:

If (P) I choose the yellow convertible, then (Q) I imagine/intuit and therefore hope I will be able to get from Point A to Point B (not get a lemon) and attract wild chicks along the way.

If (P) I choose the stodgy station (SUV), then (Q) I imagine/intuit and therefore hope I will be able to get from Point A to Point B (not get a lemon) and attract steady, reliable, marrying-kind of chicks along the way (because they realize what a sensible guy I am and the station wagon can be used for carrying bulky things including baby carriages and cribs).

These If P, Then Q syllogisms can be created and implemented consciously or subconsciously. Either way they are forms of logic, and they are intuitions and predictions of the positive and negative consequences/effects of evaluations of alternative solutions to a problem—learning how to achieve a desire and get who/what is wanted or avoid a fear and not get who/what is not wanted.