A Comparison Of Gilbert And Stouts Theory - 1784 Words

In Martha Stout’s essay â€Å"When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday†, she discusses how a person who has suffered a traumatic experience is most likely to dissociate their individual self from that situation and block it from their mind completely. This form of a solution allows the person to forget the experience and not feel the pain. In â€Å"Immune to Reality† Daniel Gilbert describes how every human being contains a psychological immune system, which works to shield us from horrible experiences that threaten our happiness. When experiencing a traumatic event, the psychological immune system responds by â€Å"cooking up the facts†, meaning taking the facts of the situation and turning the negative aspects of it into positive views. At first†¦show more content†¦Elephants have been victims of not just the incessant poaching but also of the civil wars; ultimately making them to fight back. The killing case have gone over the roof, as the â€Å"singular perversity† (Siebert 353) of the attacks. In India, â€Å"nearly one thousand people have been killed by elephants between 2000 and 2004† (Siebert 353). Several frequent attacks were recorded in Africa and other villages where the denizens were forced to evacuate their houses. ‘nearly one thousand’ which accentuates the gravity of the situation in 4 years had gained a lot of attention from the elephants researchers. Seibert’s prime third perspective, Gay Bradshaw, Oregon State psychologist, claims that that â€Å"everybody pretty much agrees that the relationship between elephants and people has dramatically changed† (Siebert 353). The choice of diction ‘dramatically’ indicates that elephants are not being violent towards human beings but they are also doing it intentionally. Dramatic behavior changes over the years are now being explained in the elephants. â€Å"Bradshaw and several colleagues argued that t oday’s elephant populations are suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma† (Siebert 354), due to â€Å"decades of poaching and habitat loss† (Siebert 354). Elephants are becoming more destructive and Bradshaw looked into combining â€Å"traditional research into elephant behavior with insights about trauma drawn from