Emotions Flashcards
Emotions
Episodes of coordinated changes in multiple components of an organism in response to events that are relevant to major concerns of the organism
They arise in response to events that happen to us and motivate us to act.
Emotions drive
thoughts, decisions, and motivation.
The amygdala hijacking.
When emotions take over, the frontal lap is not being used, and we let the emotions override. Try to breathe, know triggers, and avoid it until next time. Let the frontal lap work. It is an immediate reaction, but not the most logical.
State vs Trait
State emotions: temporary and influenced by the situation.
Trait emotions: more stable, linked to personality.
Carryover effects – positive vs negative
- Positive affect increases creativity.
o Feeling happy or positive enhances creativity and problem-solving.
o A study showed that people in a positive mood think more outside the box
emotions relates to endowment affect
people overvalue things they own due to emotional attachment.
Disgust can make people get rid of possessions, whilst sadness can make people pay more for new items.
Sadness reverses the endowment effect, making people sell low and buy high due to emotions.
o “Heart strings and purse strings” suggest that emotions influence spending, risk taking and valuations
Emotional Contagion
It is how we “catch” emotions from others. Just like a cold. It happens through facial expressions, body language, tone of voice and even digital interactions.
Emotional intelligence, 4 factors
- Perceiving emotion
- Understanding emotion
- Facilitating emotion
- Managing emotion
- Perceiving emotion
Ability to identify emotions in ourselves and others. Facial expressions, voice tones, body language, art and environment.
- Understanding emotion
Knowing how different emotions relate to each other. How they develop over time, what causes them. Complex emotions and how they shift.
- Facilitating emotion
Using emotion to enhance thinking, decision making and creativity. Ex: happiness can improve creativity.
- Managing emotion
Regulating emotions in yourself and others to achieve goals or improve well-being. Ex: you are nervous, so you breathe to control.
Related to state vs trait: state effect (temporary emotions) = you can manage emotions in the moment, for example when nervous your self-talk.
Trait affect (consistent tendencies) = some people have higher EI naturally, so they perceive, understand, and regulate emotions more effectively over time.
effects of low EI in workplace
Of the manager: low job performance and subordinates job satisfaction
Of workers: lower performance, lower behaviors like letting know when sick, less effective work, lower health.
How to increase emotional intelligence?
Perceiving: notice symptoms in your body, thoughts, and actions you feel you want to do. from ohers learn to identify cues in voices and faces, practicing with a partner.
Facilitating: Don’t force your emotions nor others. Try to understand what the source of emotions is, and if they are signaling important factors you don’t consider. Practice listening. Learn to open. Practice mindfulness
Understanding: Read about emotions. Write a diary reporting one emotional events
Managing: Try positive reappraiser. Try relaxing techniques, learn to communicate emotion effectively.
Micro-expressions
Short facial expressions which occur even when people try to hide them.
Emotional aperture
the ability to perceive and interpret the collective emotions of a group rather than focusing on individual emotions.
photo, everyone is blurred vs none
narrow vs wide aperture
A narrow aperture → You focus on one person’s emotions.
A wide aperture → You see the emotional patterns of an entire group.
Embodiment
Physical states impact emotional. Body language, how we stand etc
Emotional labor
How we change emotions or display them at work. Can lead to exhausting but its good. Emotional regulation.
Emotional reappraisal
The ability to change one emotion to its contradictory. Changing anxiety to excitement.
mindset on stress
Stress can be good. Depends how we perceive it.
Hot-cold Empathy Gap
People can have trouble remembering how they could feel and what they would do when they are in a different state form the present.
