Lecture 6 - Emotions Flashcards
Five features of emotions
- Happens after interpretation of the event.
- Become physiologically aroused
- Express emotions via verbal and nonverbal cues
- Attempt to manage emotions in an acceptable way
- Label the experience by assigning an emotion
Primary emotions
involve unique and consistent behavior displays across cultures
Six primary emotions:
- Happy
- Sad
- Fear
- Anger
- Surprise
- Disgust
Blended emotions
involve feeling two or more primary emotions simultaneously
emotional intelligence (EI)
the ability to interpret your own and other’s emotions accurately and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior
Emotionally intelligent people
- understand their own emotions
- possess empathy
- constructively manage their own emotions
- Harness their emotional states in positive ways
emotion management
- attempts to influence how you experience and express emotions
- use our brain to control our heart
- two most common ways to manage triggered emotions (suppression and venting)
What are the two most common ways to manage triggered emotions?
- suppression: behave rationally
2. venting: behave emotionally
Emotion management - catharsis
openly expressing your emotions enables you to purge them
-research suggests that while venting may provide a temporary pleasure, it actually boosts anger
emotion prevention
- encounter avoidane
- attention focus
- deactivation
encounter avoidance (emotion prevention)
staying away from people, places, or activities that you know will provoke emotions you don’t want to experience
attention focus (emotion prevention)
Intentionally devoting your attention only to aspects of an vent or encounter that you know will not prove an undesired emotion.
deactivation (emotion prevention)
systematically desensitizing yourself to emotional experience
