M4: Emotional Intelligence

• The limbic system includes the hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala, and the hippocampus. It plays a role in mediating emotional response and memory
• Understanding emotions can help us navigate life with greater ease and stability
• The amygdala plays a role in processing emotional information and sending it to cortical structures
• Emotion is a brief acute change in conscious experience and physiology that occur in response to a meaningful situation in the person’s environment. It is a product of interaction with our environment
• Culture can impact the way in which people display emotion. A cultural display rule governs the types and frequencies of displays of emotions that are acceptable
• The hypothalamus plays a role in the activation of the sympathetic nervous system that is part of any given emotional reaction
• Basic emotions suggested by psychologist Paul Eckman


  • Fear
  • Disgust
  • Anger
  • Surprise
  • Happiness
  • Sadness
• The hippocampus integrates emotional experience with cognition
• An emotionally healthy person knows and understands himself, can deal with people of different conditions in life, and lives life to the fullest. They avoid stress and always think positive in every undertaking
• Despite different emotional display rules, our ability to recognize and produce facial expressions of emotion appears to be universal
• Emotion classification system by Robert Plutchik

  • "Wheel of emotions" demonstrating how different emotions can be combined or mixed
• Emotions are subjective experiences that consist of physiological arousal and cognitive appraisal. Various theories have been put forward to explain our emotional experiences
• Jill Bolte taylor: 'Just like children emotions heal when they are heard and validated'
• The thalamus serves as a sensory relay center projecting to both the amygdala and higher cortical regions for further processing
• Three distinct components of emotion

  • Subjective
  • Physiological
  • Behavioral
• The amygdala and hippocampus are implicated in playing a role in normal emotional processing as well as in mood and anxiety disorders
• Rubrics Criteria

  • Organization
  • Level of Content
  • Development
  • Grammar, Usage, Mechanics & Spelling
• Tone of voice and body language serve as a means by which we communicate information about our emotional states
• Limbic system


  The brain’s emotional circuit, which includes the amygdala and the hippocampus, implicated in playing a role in normal emotional processing as well as in psychological mood and anxiety disorders
• Student and Teacher Feedback: Write questions or concerns regarding the lesson discussion and activities
• Cultural display rules influence how often and under what circumstances various emotions can be expressed
• Lesson Activities (Written Work 4): Reflect on times when you have been elated or fearful and describe how your arousal manifested physically
• Post-Task: Write your reflection in the discussion
• References

  • Libed Glenda, Borres Jerwin (2018). Personal Development C and E. Publishing, Inc.
  • Llaneza-Ramos, Ma. Lourdes (2017). Personality Development. C and E. Publishing, Inc.
  • Wong-Fernandez, Barbara et al. (2016) Personality Development Reader. Sunshine Interlinks Publishing house, Inc.
• Emotional experiences


  Various theories have been put forward to explain our emotional experiences
• The ability to produce and recognize facial expressions of emotions seems to be universal regardless of cultural background
• Developing an emotionally healthy personality

  1. Learn to accept that there are things that are beyond our control

  2. Observe moderation in showing/expressing your emotion

  3. Develop your sense of humor

  4. Learn to wear “other people’s shoes”

  5. Avoid being a perfectionist most of the time and respect the rights of other people

  6. Learn to accept your mistakes

  7. Accept your limitations

  8. Cultivate friendships
• Additional Sources


  • https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wsu-sandbox/chapter/emotion/
• Evaluation of Learning with Lasallian Core Values Integration: Create an infographic on how we can manage our emotions
• Emotions can either be Positive or Negative, while there are emotions that blend to another, forming complex emotions.
• Tertiary emotions are emotions that are a product of primary and secondary emotions.
• Emotions are defined as feeling states with physiological, cognitive, and behavioral components.
• Learning Objectives

  1. Discuss that understanding the intensity and differentiation of emotions may help in communicating emotional expressions

  2. Explore one’s positive and negative emotions and how one expresses or hides them

  3. Demonstrate and create ways to manage various emotions
• Developing an emotionally healthy personality

  • Learn to accept that there are things beyond our control
  • Observe moderation in showing/expressing your emotion
  • Develop your sense of humor
  • Learn to wear “other people’s shoes”
  • Avoid being a perfectionist most of the time and respect the rights of other people
  • Learn to accept your mistakes
  • Accept your limitations
  • Cultivate friendships
• Primary emotions are the first emotions that a person feels as a response to an event or situation.
• Ekman classified emotions into six: ANGER, DISGUST, fear, HAPPINESS, sadness, SURPRISE. Later, he added more emotions but stated that not all can be determined via facial expressions.
• Plutchik supported Ekman’s view about emotion. He created his wheel of emotions, consisting of 8 basic emotions and 8 advanced emotions, each composed of two basic ones.
• Classification of Emotion by Ekman


  • ANGER
  • DISGUST
  • fear
  • HAPPINESS
  • sadness
  • SURPRISE
  • Amusement
  • Contempt
  • Contentment
  • EMBARRASSMENT
  • Excitement
  • GUILT
  • Pride in achievement
  • Relief
  • SATISFACTION
  • Sensory pleasure
  • SHAME
• Emotion is a brief acute change in conscious experience and physiology that occur in response to a meaningful situation in the person’s environment. It is a product of interaction with our environment.
• Parrot identified over 100 emotions and classified them into 3 namely: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary emotions.