Emotions

What are emotions

Physiological changes

body changes occur when we are feeling emotion

Nonverbal reactions

Cognitive interpretations

verbal expression

Influences on emotional expression

Personality

culture

gender

social conventions and roles

social media

emotional contagion

guidelines for expressing emotions

recognize your feelings

choose the best language

share multiple feelings

recognize the difference between feeling and acting

accept responsibility for your feelings

choose the best time and place to express your feelings

Managing emotions

facilitative and debilitative emotions

thoughts cause feelings

irrational thinking and debilitative emotions

fallacy of perception

fallacy of approval

fallacy of should

fallacy of causation

fallacy of overgeneralization

fallacy of helplessness

fallacy of catastrophic expectations

minimizing debilitative emotions

monitor your emotional reactions

note the activating event

record your self talk

dispute your irrational beliefs

reappraisal- rethinking the meaning of emotionally charged events in ways that alter their emotional impact

process by which emotions are transferred from one person to another

facilitatice emotions- effective

debilitative emotions- prevent effective perfomance

worthwhile communicator should be able to handle any situation

seek acceptance of others

not being able to distinguish between what is and what should be

bases belief on a limited amount of evidence

believe they shouldn't hurt or inconvience others

forces beyond our control determine satisfaction

something bad is always going to happen