Good thinking Dr. Zafar sir, research is passionate to me as well as emotional. When I started my research work, I used to take care the experimental fishes like my kids. My children often scolded me and blamed me that I loved my fishes more than them. Hope you enjoyed Doctor. Thanks

Muhammad Abdullah Al Mamun

Love is madly and true research is madly too ( I believe that seriously as I am engaged and impacted by it ) . Frankly speaking, my friends always make me alert that my wife will flee !! . Surprisingly , still it didn't happen sir. I have very emotional touch with it as like you !!

Thanks

A person who is dedicated and beloved to his research, how is it possible to leave someone from him? A genuine heart never loose, instead of gain. Nice to share our thoughts in an excellent platform (RG). Keep this platform alive by your wisdom and intellect Dr. Zafar.

Scientist must be objective and reaserch must be fullfilled without any emotions to keep it professional...

Certainly.

In periods of family problems and even when the salary is delayed, it is difficult to concentrate and produce better texts.

I try to avoid using emotions in my writings.

Muhammad Abdullah Al Mamun

Thank you sir ! Please keep me beside you all to enrich me . I am here only to learn from you all and I am seriously hungry for that.

All the best.

Emotion is a drive to conduct research and has definitely an impact. Emotion helps to be serious, creates war footing, strong zeal to get output and helps to move fast. For each and every researcher, emotion is necessary.

Emotions bound us to be logistical rather than logical

Pisipaty Srinivas Kishore

......... Emotion helps to be serious, creates war footing, strong zeal to get output and helps to move fast. ...... I agree

Research has shown that happiness has a positive effect on learning, memory and social behavior. Conversely, negative emotional states, such as anger and sadness, have been shown to have a negative impact on learning and motivation. Emotions can disrupt thinking and learning.

I agree with Md Zafar Alam Bhuiyan

Emotion is the motor to anything: good, evil and knowledge between both.

Following.

The study of the relationship between culture and emotions dates back to 1872 when Darwin analyzed emotions and expressions of emotions as universal phenomena. Since then, the universality of the six core emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust and surprise) has sparked a debate among psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists. While emotions themselves are universal phenomena, they are always influenced by culture. It is different how emotions are experienced, expressed, photographed and organized as a function of normative behavior culturally by the surrounding society. Thus, it can be said that culture is the necessary framework for researchers to understand differences in emotions.

The emotion effect every thing, sure it will effect research

We are humans, we have hearts and we have brains so the emotion can effected to every one and everything.

When you enter passion, you mean that you are not objective and therefore the results of the research are inaccurate and unreliable.

You state: “I think there is a serious impact of emotion in research.”

Is this thought based on a hunch, a guess, a comment from a colleague, anecdotes, social media, prejudice?

I am sorry to disappoint you but perhaps we need to conduct a serious objective scientific unbiased research to find out whether what you think is correct or incorrect.

I do not know you personally, but I am guessing that you are an honorable man, and a man of integrity. I do not know for sure, however. I am not suggesting in any way, thought or form that you are lying about this issue; but I am not sure. Just maybe, maybe, you are mistaken.

I would like to believe you but I need some evidence or data or information.

Believe thought there was WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). Did they act on a hunch? A guess? Some professional opinions from experts of integrity?

How to move forward? It is okay to reject research, but you must provide an alternative on how to make important decisions without research and data. Always easy to curse the darkness; please light a candle sirji.

“Trust but verify” is an old Russian proverb, I think.

Questions to answer in Research

For quality control, and to maintain the highest standards of professionalism and integrity, we have some safeguards in research.

Please define the sample for the inference. Is it representative? Suppose we want to make a statement that applies to the WHOLE country. We must use a sample that represents the whole country. You cannot find your favorite 20 people in your home village and ask them for the information.

What is the sample size? Clearly if you only asked one person, who is your best friend, that would not qualify. I am not sure that if you asked 20 persons, that would be enough to make a robust, verifiable, and trustworthy statement for the WHOLE country.

What is the quality of the data? Is the data publicly available so that others may try and replicate the results that you are claiming?

What is the theoretical framework behind the research question? Did you conduct a comprehensive literature review?

Peer reviewed? Have your peers reviewed the research results?

As professionals and persons of integrity, researchers believe in self-regulation. Of course, there are always some bad apples (or mangoes or cherries) in any box. What to do? We try our best to identify the bad cherries and publicly shame them

Sure the emotion affect on research.

There is no debate about whether emotions affect the modeling, analysis and results of research. The better question to ask is: should we try and minimize the impacts of emotions? And if yes, how?

I write and think better when im happy. Emotions can affect how we work, so is its effect in research.

Dear Md Zafar Alam Bhuiyan

Yeah, there is a connection between research and emotion. If you upset with any matter, you can not do your research work with concentration. Most of the time, we see that when we are worried about our any family matter, our emotion fell down, resulting research work becomes wrong.

Emotion has a great impact on research. If you are in a good mood then you can be creative, and think , work, write , make useful contribution to the scientific world.

Lamia Al-Naama

I agree 100% with you. In fact, this is my case and when my mood is off , my works do not go on and I am totally undone with this situations.

Reuben Tamakloe

I do agree , a happy mind is to perfect situation to switch on anything especially , research.

Thanks

Research has shown that happiness has a positive effect on learning, memory and social behavior. Conversely, negative emotional states, such as anger and sadness, have been shown to have a negative impact on learning and motivation.

Follow the link: http://www.healthtalk.org/peoples-experiences/medical-research/patient-public-involvement-researchers/feelings-about-involvement-and-emotional-impact

I think there is an ambiguity in the question.

How does emotion have an impact on research?

First interpretation

How does your emotional state of mind affect the process of research and the results? Clearly if you are tired, sick or hungry, it could affect how you do your research and the quality of the research. Most people would probably agree with this. The solution is to try and do research only when you are well or not hungry. However, if you have a deadline to meet, then it could be a problem. You could be upset and angry at your colleagues for missing deadlines or being uncooperative. Again, no easy answers.

Second interpretation

In research, we should be unbiased, objective and as neutral as possible. However, the topic of the research may make you angry and upset. This could affect how you do the research and may affect the interpretation and analysis of the results. Suppose in the past, you have had very negative experiences on the theme that you are researching. It is easy to think of such examples. You are very angry about a recent U.S. policy and you are researching this topic. Is it possible for you to be objective? I don’t know. This emotional state could prevent you from being unbiased and objective and neutral. This could also happen if you have had positive experiences.

The question remains: how important is it that the researcher should continue to be unbiased, neutral and objective when faced with all these emotional pressures.

Many people have commented on the first interpretation. May I kindly request you to comment on the second interpretation. Please do the needful.

As a social scientist I certainly can endorse that emotions can have an impact on research. There is nothing such as an objective world. The world is a constructed one, and part of the construction is the interpretation of the researcher of the world, his/her experience, perceptions, ideas and understanding of language,.....

A researcher also have not to be neutral, especially not in issues that are normative (I teach and research development, which is a normative concept, different people have different values, priorities, etc.). I am also teaching Environmental Management and do research in this direction. While I depend on science in this I still have preferences (the environment should be protected, to unnecessary pollute water is unacceptable, and many many more of such value statements).

If I claim that there is no objective world then the demand to be objective is a contradiction. Still so far no word has been lost about emotions. First a challenge is that emotions can be unconscious; we often do not know, what kind of emotions have impacts on how we view the world;

Eberhard Weber It is a categorical concept: objective or subjective. Or is it a continuum of some sort, from perfectly objective on one end to perfectly subjective on the other?

اتفق مع الاجابات السابقة

"In order to have something like a complete theory about human rationality, we need to understand the role of emotion in this context. "

- Herbert Simon, American scientist who won the Nobel Prize,

How does emotion can impact on research ? Is there any ?

Yes emotion can impact research just like how emotion impacts our work & family life. Personally finding EQ sometimes more important than IQ in research because we can face "road blocks" everywhere especially in a lonely research journey. So strong positive EQ can be one of the avenues to sustain us in completing our research.

Han Ping Fung

The question remains: how important is it that the researcher should continue to be unbiased, neutral and objective when faced with all these emotional pressures.

Having a sound mind always yield a better results and for that matter researchers need NOT to be troubled or influenced emotionally, this will enable them to give their best to the development of the world and the scientific community.

sorry this field not within my interested area.

As a social scientist I certainly can endorse that emotions can have an impact on research. There is nothing such as an objective world. The world is a constructed one, and part of the construction is the interpretation of the researcher of the world, his/her experience, perceptions, ideas and understanding of language,..... A researcher also have not to be neutral, especially not in issues that are normative (I teach and research development, which is a normative concept, different people have different values, priorities, etc.). I am also teaching Environmental Management and do research in this direction. While I depend on science in this I still have preferences (the environment should be protected, to unnecessary pollute water is unacceptable, and many many more of such value statements). If I claim that there is no objective world then the demand to be objective is a contradiction. Still so far no word has been lost about emotions. First a challenge is that emotions can be unconscious; we often do not know, what kind of emotions have impacts on how we view the world;

Yes emotion can impact research just like how emotion impacts our work & family life.