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An intense reaction to an event that involved interpreting the meaning of the event, becoming physiologically aroused, labeling the experience as emotional, attempting to manage our reaction, and communicating this reaction in the form of emotional display and disclosures.
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5 key features of emotion
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1. reactive-triggered by our preception of outside events
2. Physiological arousal- increased heart rate, blood pressure, and adrenaline release.
3. Emotion experience- becoming aware of your interpretation and arousal as "an emotion" and labeling them as such.
4. Experience of emotion- How we each experience and express our emotions by historical, cultural, relational, and situational norms and governing what is and is not appropriate.
5. When emotion occurs- the choices you make regarding emotion management and how it is reflected outward in your verbal and nonverbal displaus. EX: choice of words, exclamations or expletives, facial expressions, body posture, and gestures. |
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| When we talk about our emotional experiences with others. |
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| When the experience of the same emotion rapidly spreads from one person to others. |
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| Short-term emotional reactions to events that generate only limited arousal and do not trigger attempts to manage their experiences or expression. |
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| Are low-intensity states amd are not caused by particular events and typically last longer than feelings or emotions. They influence our perception and interpersonal communication. EX: boredom, contenment, grouchiness, or serenity. |
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| 6 Primary emotions/high-intensity |
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Emotions that involve unique and consistent behavioral displays across culture.
1. Surprise-Amazement
2. Joy-Ectasy
3. Disgust-Loathing
4. Anger-Rage
5. Fear-Terror
6. Sadness-Grief |
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| When an event may trigger two or more primary emotions simultaneously. |
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1. Culture
2. Gender
3. Personality |
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| When people in a given culture agree about which forms of emotion management and communication are socially desireable and appropriate. |
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| 5 Steps of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) |
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1. Call to mind common situations that lead you to be upset.
2. Identify irrational beliefs about your self and others that are tied to these situations.
3. Consider the emotional, behavioral, and relational consequenes that you suffer as a result of these beliefs.
4. Critically challenge these beliefs-disputing their validity.
5. Identify more accurate and realistic beliefs about your self, others, and the world at large that cause more positive emotional, behavioral, and relational outcomes, and embrace these beliefs fully. |
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| The ability to interpret your own and others' emotions accurately and to use this information to manage emotions, communicate them constructively, and solve relationship problems. |
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| Attempts to influence which emotions you have, when you have them, and how you experience and express them. |
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| Inhibiting thoughts, arousal, and outward behavioral displays of emotion. |
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| Allowing emotions to dominate our thoughts and explosively expressing them. |
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| Staying away from people, places, or activities that you know will provoke emotions that you do not want to experience. |
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| Advoiding topics that you know will provoke unwanted emotion during encounters with others. |
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| Devoting your attention only to aspects of an event or encounter that you know will not provoke an undesired emotion. |
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| Systenatically desensitizing yourself to emotional experience. |
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| Actively changing how you think about the meaning of emotion- eliciting situations so that their emotional impact is changed. |
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| A negative primary emotion that occurs when you are blocked or interrupted from attaining and important goal by what you see as the improper action of an exteral agent. |
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| Putting yourself in a near-constant state of arousal and negative thinking |
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| The assumption that venting will rid you of anger |
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| When a person says or does something that makes you angry and you count to 10 slowly before you speak or act. |
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| A blended emotion of a combination of surprise and joy coupled with a number of positve feelings such as excitement, amazement, and sexual attraction. |
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| The intense sadness that follows a substantial loss |
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Sharing messages that express emotional support and that offer personal assistance.
Effective support messages convey explicit emotional support, sincere expressions of sympathy and condolence, concern for the other person, or encouragement to express emotions.
Ineffective support messages tell a person how he or she should feel or indicate that the individual is somehow incompetent or blameworthy. |
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