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That's not what I've noticed in engineers. What I've noticed most often is engineers, who say they are logical and thinking-first unemotionally, exhibiting: A
by jlokier 5y ago
That's not what I've noticed in engineers.
What I've noticed most often is engineers, who say they are logical and thinking-first unemotionally, exhibiting:
Anger, frustration, anxiety, exasperation, beligerence, smugness, laughter.
You've almost certainly met engineers who agitatedly tell you how much they are logical, beligerently "reason" with colleagues, or gleefully put down people they regard as soft and emotional.
Those are emotions.
This isn't true of everyone of course. Some people really seem like the emotion chip wasn't fitted. But I have noticed intense emotions in a number of engineers who explicitly describe themselves as being unemotional, logical, and thinking clearly.
It's an interesting blind spot.
- david-gpu 5y agoWell put. My uneducated guess is that people who lack emotional intelligence tend to dismiss emotions as unimportant and tend to believe they are more rational than average precisely because their low emotional intelligence makes it harder for them to understand the importance of emotions in themselves and in others.
- vixit 5y agoclaps This is very, very true. Engineers like to put on a front of "I am an logical being therefore I don't feel emotion like the lesser emotional beings". But they show all sorts of emotions like anger, frustrations, superiority, anxiety, etc. Our peers just don't have very developed emotional intelligence, and don't view their emotions for what they are. It's a big blind spot, and I think it is further blinded by the lack of emphasis on emotional intelligence that boys experience in growing up. There's also this odd societal view that you cannot be both emotional and intelligent/logical.