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EMOTIONS - Coggle Diagram
EMOTIONS
Emotions influence how we live and interact with others: our choices, actions, perceptions.
6 basic emotions
(Eckman) - can be seen or shown through facial expression.
Happiness
Facial expression: smiling.
Plays a role in physical and mental health.
Pleasant emotional state: feelings of contentment, joy, gratification, satisfaction, well-being.
Sadness
Expressed by: crying, dampened mood, quietness, withdrawal from others, negative thoughts, avoiding others.
Its severity can vary, depending on the root cause and each person's process.
Transient emotional state: feelings of disappointment, grief, hopelessness, disinterest, dampened mood.
Anger
Facial expression: frowning or glaring.
Play's a role in your body's fight or flight response.
Powerful emotion: feelings of hostility, agitation, frustration, antagonism. Can be good, constructive, helps us motivator. But can become a problem, such us aggression, abuse, or violence.
Fear
Facial expression: widening eyes, pulling the chin back.
Triggers the fight or flight response; muscles tense, heart rate and respiration increase, more alert.
Emotional response to an immediate threat. Powerful emotion: important role in survival.
Surprise
Facial expression: raising elbows widening the eyes, opening the mouth.
Can trigger the fight or flight response.
Physiological startle response, can be unexpected, and breif. Can be positive, neutral or negative.
Disgust
Facial expression: wrinkling the nose, curling the lip.
Reaction towards taste, sight or smell. Also, can be moral disgust, towards others' behaviours.
Sense of revolsion.
Other emotions
(not all can be seen through facial expression)
Amusement, contempt, contentment, embarrassment, excitement, guilt, pride, relief, satisfaction, shame.
An emotion is a complex state of feeling, that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behavior.
Emotions change...
From time to
New cultural expectations, new religious beliefs, new ideas about gender, ethnicity and age, new political/economic ideologies.
From place to place
Importance of naming our emotions
No neutral labels, that transmit ideas about whom we think we are, and that are frightened with our culture's values and expectations.
Our emotions "unfold on a timeline"
Experience
Physical and mental changes (EMOTION)
Immediate felt experience
Automatically bodily sensations
Response
can be...
Gets in the way of your goals
Helpful or unhelpful
Helps in your goals
Trigger
(context)
The event (world or mind)
Our worldview
Current circumstances and feelings
3 distinct components
Physiological response
Prepare your body for fight or flight reactions.
Brain also plays a role in emotions.
Are cause automatically and involuntary by the nervous system.
The brain, throughout thoughts, recreates emotions.
Emotions cause strong physiological reactions.
Behavioural responses
End up being the expression of the emotion, that plays a major part in your overall language expression. Some of them are universal. As well, sociocultural norms play a role in how we react, express and interpret emotions.
Subjective experience
Each human being experiences emotions in their own way (multi-dimensional-subjective). As well, we can experience mixed emotions that in each person the experience of them will be different.
Theories
Neurological
: activity within the brain leads to emotional responses.
Cognitive
: thoughts and other mental activity play an essential role in forming emotions
Physiological
: responses within the body are responsible for emotions
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:
our ability to accurately understand these expressions and their origins.
TRUE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE:
understand that the social, political, and cultural forces have shaped what we've come to believe about or emotions, and how emotions might still be changing now.
emotion vs. mood
Emotion
Short-lived, but intense
Definite and identifiable cause
Mood
Difficult to find the specific cause
Longer-lasting, much milder than an emotion