Week 5

• Emotion


  • A complex psychological phenomenon which occurs as animals or people live their lives
  • An intense feeling that is directed at someone or something
• Emotional Intelligence (EI)


  • Facilitates interpersonal behavior
  • Capacity to understand and manage emotion
  • Ability to manage feelings so that they are expressed appropriately and effectively
  • Ability to perceive emotion, integrate emotion to facilitate thought, understand emotions, and regulate emotions to promote personal growth
• Humanistic Approach


  1. Identifies personal responsibility and feelings of self-acceptance as key causes of differences in personality

  2. Focuses on how humans have evolved and adapted behaviors required for survival against various environmental pressures over the long course of evolution
• Behavioral/Social Learning Approach


  1. Consistent behavior patterns as the result of conditioning and expectations

  2. Emphasizes the role of environment in shaping behavior
• Behavioral Personality Theory


  Model of personality that emphasizes learning and observable behavior
• Social Learning Theory


  Explanation of personality that combines learning principles, cognition, and the effects of social relationships
• Five Components of Emotional Intelligence by Goleman


  • Self-awareness
  • Self-regulation
  • Motivation
  • Empathy
  • Social skills
• Emotional Intelligence and Criminal Behavior


  • Convicted offenders obtained significantly lower scores on all domains of MEII (Mangal Emotion Intelligence Inventory)
  • Emotional intelligence is deeply related to aggression and offending
  • Persons with high EI levels are more able to moderate their emotions and are less impulsive
  • Individuals with low EI levels are more prone to risky behavior
  • Reduced capacity to regulate emotions could possibly maintain offending pattern of behavior in criminals
  • Reduced capacity to regulate anger, desire, and sexual arousal may result in assault, theft, and sexual assault, respectively
  • Some recent studies consistently report EI deficits in criminals
  • Some studies indicate that offenders are deficient in subcomponents of EI such as social problem-solving, empathy, social competency, flexibility, impulse control, and self-regard
• Conflict


  • A stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between incompatible or contradictory alternatives
  • A negative emotional state caused by an inability to choose between two or more incompatible goals or impulses
• Conflict


  A stressful condition that occurs when a person must choose between incompatible or contradictory alternatives
• Conflict


  A negative emotional state caused by an inability to choose between two or more incompatible goals or impulses
• Development of the lesson


  Is the state in which two or more motives cannot be satisfied because they interfere with one another
• Criminal behavior


  An indicator of conflict within the person
• Criminal behavior as an indicator of conflict within the person

  • Failure to resolve tensions generated in the course of interaction between the organism and human figures in its environment
  • Tensions generated by a person’s inability to satisfy the contradictory expectations of others or mobilize the resources needed to perform a role assigned to him
• Functional versus Dysfunctional Conflict

  • Dysfunctional Conflict - There is dysfunctional conflict if conflict disrupts, hinders job performance, and upsets personal psychological functioning
  • Functional Conflicts - There is functional conflict if conflict is responsive and innovative aiding in creativity and viability
• Theories of Emotion

  • James-Lange Theory by William James and Carl Lange - Emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the environment, occurring after physiological reactions
  • Cannon-Bard Theory by Philip Bard and Walter Cannon - Suggests that people feel emotions first and then act upon them, with emotion and physiological reactions occurring simultaneously
  • Two Factor Theory by Schachter & Singer - Emotion is the cognitive interpretation of a physiological response, considered the "common sense" theory to explain physiological changes and emotion
• The Two-Factor Theory of Emotion was proposed by researchers Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer
• Two-Factor Theory of Emotion


  1. Physical arousal of the nervous system

  2. Cognitive interpretation of that arousal