YAGAMI LIGHT e o lado sombrio da INTELIGÊNCIA EMOCIONAL | Psicologia Death Note

I am Rafael, psychologist. AND IN COLLEGE I WAS LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW TO SEE IF ANYTHING HAPPENED. Never happened.

Today we are going to reflect on YAGAMI LIGHT. There are spoilers from the anime, the manga and everything but the movies. Come on!

LIGHT'S FIRST VIDEO here on the channel took place 8 MONTHS AGO. It was just the first video of the year I made. A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN.

To give you an idea, we had 2 THOUSAND REGISTRATIONS ON THE CHANNEL. And there we reflected on the MORAL ISSUE OF THE CHARACTER and also on his NARCISISM. And today it's going to be about another aspect.

A very important aspect of YAGAMI is its SOCIAL SKILLS. And yes, individuals with EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE can use this way of MANAGING EMOTIONS in themselves and in others just for MANIPULATION, to HURT the other, to GET what they want AT ANY COSTS, this is YAGAMI LIGHT. LIGHT is an EXTREMELY CONVINCED person of his own PRINCIPLES and this took him very FAR, but it was also the reason for his DEFEAT.

LIGHT is a character that helps us REFLECT on what to DO and what NOT to DO too. Basically YAGAMI STORY starts when RYUK, a SHINIGAMI, is BORED. Yes, exactly.

RYUK'S BOREDOM KILLED THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE, created a TV PROGRAM, cut down on CRIMINALITY IN THE WORLD and made LIGHT totally change its PERSPECTIVE. After all, HOW MUCH CAN POWER CHANGE US? YAGAMI LIGHT answers that question for all of us in a very DRAMATIC way.

How much our PERSPECTIVE about the world can change by simply having THE POWER in our hands. Psychologist DACHER KELTNER in a BEHAVIORAL research , which he has even conducted over the last 20 YEARS, found a pattern that is kind of DISTURBING: although people generally EARN POWER through CHARACTERISTICS and ACTIONS that promote the interest of others such as EMPATHY, COLLABORATION, OPENNESS, when you begin to feel POWERFUL and enjoy a PRIVILEGED POSITION these QUALITIES begin to DECREASE. This research found that the POWERFUL are MORE LIKELY than other people to engage in RUDE, SELFISH, and UNETHICAL BEHAVIORS.

LIGHT is visibly DIFFERENT when it is IN POSSESSION OF THE NOTEBOOK and when it is NOT. Perhaps your MORAL CONCEPT is very similar. Your TWO VERSIONS consider THE WORLD a LOST place, but your NOTEBOOK version has the POWER to CHANGE that.

When LIGHT again LOSES HIS NOTEBOOK he speaks a very striking phrase for L: “Manipulating the feelings of others is something unforgivable”. LIGHT said this in a SINCERE way , not even he thought he was doing it. In possession of this weapon that makes him ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE ON THE PLANET, someone with THE POWER TO DECIDE ON THE LIVES of other people, all this ends up completely changing the PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD OF LIGHT and starts to live according to this VISION that he is the SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.

After all, if he was already a STUDENT considered ABOVE AVERAGE, with that power he starts to think HIGHER. He says: “I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW MY EXISTENCE” and he enters a path of no return. In a 2011 UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY study led by psychologist JENNIFER STELLAR found that MIDDLE AND HIGH CLASS participants were less able to feel EMPATHY and COMPASSION for people in danger.

She says that when we have NO power and REALLY want to contribute, we tend to THINK FOR THE GOOD of other people. We listen and adapt our BEHAVIOR to the SOCIAL GROUP, but once we have POWER our focus ends up CHANGING, it simply changes to “WHAT DO I WANT? ”.

We have come to focus on our WISHES and this FOCUS produces a state of SELFISHNESS and it is such a common occurrence that you have probably already met someone who has changed after exercising some kind of power. An important step to be immune to this effect is to try to CULTIVATE your SELF-AWARENESS. It helps you realize what is really happening to you and who you really are.

Having a good SELF-AWARENESS helps us not to let power go to our heads and this is something that LIGHT has been losing throughout history, so much so that for me this IS A REASON FOR IT TO LOSE IN THE END. But come on, right? LIGHT is extremely INTELLIGENT in several aspects, not only in the INTELLIGENT conscious , in his IQ, because for me his main thing is in the EMOTIONAL aspect.

He basically with LITTLE DIALOGUE TIME can discover a lot about someone, their GOALS, the way the person REACTIONS and the main thing: their FEARS. And that makes him practically able to interact with anyone on the show, from more RETRACTED people like L, to more energetic people like MISA. Those already mentioned here SALOVEY AND MAYER say that EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE involves a more accurate perception of EMOTIONS.

Using and regulating EMOTIONS properly and understanding and COMMUNICATING more EFFECTIVELY. And some scholars define this COMPETENCE as something broader, like the RELATIONSHIP SKILL, like SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, something we observe a lot in anime. LIGHT can pass the IMAGE he wants to almost ANYONE, he can very easily get the CONFIDENCE of anyone and he uses it to his advantage, to his PURPOSE.

MISA was manipulated by the UNCONDITIONAL AFFECTION she showed him. TAKADA was influenced by the ADMIRATION she had for LIGHT and MIKAMI was MANIPULATED by the blindness of believing in KIRA'S JUSTICE UNCONDITIONALLY. In 2010, a group of scientists found that individuals who had some degree of NARCISISM with a generalized pattern of SUPERIORITY, an AUTO IMPORT NCIA, made great impressions on people they had just met.

They were seen as LOVELY people. LIGHT, for example, at various times tries to look like a kind of VICTIM OF THE SITUATION. He has these attitudes just when he 's with the task force and throws just that in L's lap.

And that made many there NEVER DIStrust him and even feel PITY for him for being considered to be KIRA. Recent studies suggest that for individuals with certain EXPLORER PERSONALITY traits, playing the famous “Victim Card” is a victim strategy, it is a strategy used to cause a RELATIONSHIP IMBALANCE. Perceiving someone as a recipient of UNFAIR treatment ends up half there encouraging us to HELP that person without thinking about anything in return.

It can also tempt us to make up EXCUSES for his BAD BEHAVIOR when he's staring at us. But let's go! He HANDLES individuals as well as GROUPS too.

Think at that moment when he says that MOST people would AGREE with him. Everyone wants a world WITHOUT CRIMES and he uses it in favor of his DOMINATION PLAN. These people then create a program called “ KIRA 'S KINGDOM ” and then they try to DESTROY THE ORGANIZATION that was investigating it.

In other words, he ends up having INFLUENCE on people who are the opposite of him. Since in many moments he simply KEEPS CALM and ends up NOT looking surprised or anything like that. Even in a situation where he is caught UNPREVENTED as when he has a confrontation with NAOMI where the whole time he remains calm, even though the conversation develops so that in the end he is discovered by her and yet he tries to KEEP IT CALM, try to keep the TONE OF VOICE.

Or when L, for example —this was great—, he arrives there for LIGHT and says “I AM OL”, like he REVEALS HIS IDENTITY to the person he MOST SUSPICIOUS. OL is TOO MUCH. And LIGHT doesn't show any reaction, not explicitly because inside he's a TURBILLION OF EMOTIONS but he thinks “WAIT, I CANNOT SHOW ANY EMOTIONS ”.

Psychology professor JAMES GROSS says that the process of choice that involves UNDERSTANDING, BALANCE and DECIDE which EMOTIONS to feel, for example, is called EMOTIONAL REGULATION. There are several forms of EMOTIONAL REGULATION, what LIGHT uses there is what GROSS calls BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE and EMOTIONAL SUPPRESSION. EMOTIONAL REGULATIONS focused on BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE and EMOTIONAL SUPPRESSION consider that after EMOTION has already been installed we can INHIBIT EMOTIONAL RESPONSES so that other people do not notice what we are FEELING and it is what LIGHT just used.

He managed to do it there so that the others would not notice HIS REACTION. In the scene where L surprises LIGHT, he is amazed by that, but right there he kind of ends up changing the meaning of that event and with that it shows NO SURPRISE for L. For the people who were watching that moment, L was INTIMIDY say that, but LIGHT ends up not thinking about the situation as a whole.

One of the RARE MOMENTS he ends up showing what he's feeling is when MISA talks on TV that she thinks he DOESN'T HAVE SHINIGAMI'S EYES. At that moment he shows SURPRISE and it's funny that he looks around to see if anyone noticed that he was surprised by that. We have TWO TONLS, one on each side of the brain behind the eyes, the optic nerves, and they are responsible for detecting FEAR and PREPARING our body for an EMERGENCY RESPONSE .

When we perceive a threat, the AYGDALA sounds an ALARM releasing a cascade of CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES in the body. STRESS HORMONES, like ADRENALINE and CORTISOL, flood our system immediately preparing us to FIGHT or FUCK and what happens to complex decision-making DISAPPEARS, as does our access to MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES. LIGHT doesn't despair, he sees the situation in a very BROAD way and realizes in a FAST way that he doesn't need to DESPERATE at any given time.

REFLECTING on this can help us CALM THE AYGDALA helping you to QUIT FIGHT AND RUN MODE allowing you to use the energy to think clearly about that situation, instead of worrying, or in the case of LIGHT, until you get to home because he finds RYUK and starts DUMPING everything on him. And RYUK is the only person LIGHT trusts, right? Now LIGHT is really AFFECTED when something or someone messes with this SENSE OF SUPERIORITY he has of himself, like the first time L CONFRONTS him where he puts his plan down because of trying to end L at that moment , motivated by his REACTION and also there when NEAR puts LIGHT against the wall and also makes him lose his cool and this is the great ACHILLES HEEL of LIGHT when his EGO is AFFECTED somehow this happens because of the fact that even though he has a good EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE there, he also showed little SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS.

The final scene of him BEGGING, calling TAKADA, MISA, moved me. Even after everything he did with them and it's interesting that the author put these two people in this scene because they were basically the ONLY two PEOPLE who knew LIGHT, KIRA, really, who knew he was KIRA, knew TRUTH and even then THEY WERE ON HIS SIDE and were willing to HELP HIM , because as much as KIRA had many supporters, LIGHT was alone, he was ALONE in his own MODEL OF THE WORLD is because it's like no one really knew him. Except for the people watching and RYUK, of course.

The way he used his POWER and ARROG NCIA turned out to be his RUIN. “ARROG NCIA AND SELF-AWARENESS RARELY GO HAND IN HAND ”. That's why it's important to know who we really are.

POWER IS SOMETHING NEUTRAL. And the person who has access to it can make it BAD. Like EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, it is not INHERENTLY VIRTUOUS but rather a TOOL.

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