Psychological Valence and the Yum-Yuck Relation

today on the sociologist we're talking about why people are driven and motivated to Yum someone's yuck or yuck someone's yum this is a psychological concept called veilance psychological veilance just like veilance in physics is described by your ability by the attractiveness to attract and have more of something if you have positive veilance this is something I would like more of please this is something I want to attract more of I want to see more of it not necessarily A positive emotional connection but the attraction to it the pursuance of that negative veence of course would be the inverse of this within a version negative veence is I do not want to see any more of this I want to go away from this no more please thank you I am full I have no veilance I have no vacancy for um whatever the subject in Criterion at hand is so psychological veilance has a lot of study into axiology the study of why humans value the things that they do this valuation can get compounded when we fold it in on oneself what do we value that other people value we are humans we do interact with one another we do see how other people like or dislike something and that affects how we like or dislike the same thing now well how we can start visualizing this is if you yuck someone's yum or yck yum someone's yuck we also of course would have if you yum someone's yum and if you yuck someone's yuck in this Matrix in this kind of Punit square of positive and negative bances we will explore what each of these look like in the emotional connotations that happen when we have these attractions and aversions to other people's attractions and aversions so the first one I would like to talk about is a positive veilance towards someone's positive veilance if you want to Yum someone's yum great example I would like to use for this for a placeholder for most sociological concepts most social structures is pineapple on pizza if somebody says I like pineapple on Pizza let's order pineapple on Pizza I love that you like pineapple on Pizza you got pineapple on Pizza I'm happy for you yay this is known as compersion it's usually inferred with intimate partner relationships but also is simply the happiness of someone else being happy they got something they like you like that let's get more of that absolutely let's order pineapple on pizza I want to see you happy another panel that we'll look at is if you yum someone's yuck this is if somebody wanted to order um pineapple on pizza and they say I hate pineapple on Pizza I don't want to order pineapple on pizza and you have a positive attraction to that oh all of a sudden well I'm going to order pineapple on my half maybe you could try it maybe you'll like it uh uh maybe I'll do that just so that's half of the piz you can't have and now there's more for me this is obstinance this is an emotion where we want to potentially expose the person to that in either a pro-social or antisocial manner somebody dislikes pineapple on pizza and we want to purposely order pineapple on Pizza obstinance one other configuration we can look at with this is negative veilance towards negative veence if you yuck someone's yuck this is standing with someone in solidarity if somebody says I hate p pineapple on Pizza I'm allergic to pineapple on Pizza I had a bad experience with pineapple on Pizza when I was a kid oh you dislike pineapple on Pizza I dislike it too I stand with you yuck you yuck the same thing that they yuck this is a consonant bond this does help just like with yuming someone's yum this is a constant way to emotionally commune with somebody and then the last one we have is if you yuck someone's young this is having a negative veilance having an aversion to someone's positive emotion if you yuck someone's yum that's somebody that likes pineapple and pizza wants to order pineapple and pizza and you say ew I hate pineapple on Pizza how dare you like pineapple on Pizza how can you like that what's wrong with you that is a negative connotation to when somebody likes something and somebody wants to enjoy it emotionally this is resentment resenting when somebody enjoys something and you want to bring them back down remind them hey not Everyone likes that check yourself we see this with what we call care and behavior in society with antisocial behaviors this is something like being a stick in the mud being a wet blanket being a downer on the party and not wanting other people to have fun these are commonly associated with when you want to attach a negative emotion to other people's positive emotion so hopefully these kind of this grid this Matrix of how we attach positive and negative emotion to other people's positive and negative emotions our reactions to pineapple on pizza and the emotion values therein kind of paints a picture of what kind of effect you may have on others what kind of effects you want to elicit in others things that you may like when you see those emotional patterns in others and things you may dislike when you see them out in the world and in the society around us