PERDEV Lesson 5

• Roger Elbert: 'Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.'
• Emotions


  Strong feelings deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. Emotions are responses to significant internal and external events.

  
• Components of Emotions


  • Physiological
  • Behavioral
  • Cognitive

  
• Physiological Arousal

  • It starts with a state of arousal, a heightened activity in both our mind and body that makes us more alert. The arousal may be intense or mild depending on the source of arousal. Arousal starts in the brain.
• Emotional Arousal


  A process that happens as a sequence over time
• Emotional Expression


  • People recognize that we feel by our facial expression. Facial expression communicates our emotion. It can be misleading, exaggerated or minimized. Facial expression is universal and can be seen in animals.
• Emotional Expression (Charles Darwin)


  • Emotions and their expressions are innate and evolutionary adaptive.
• Emotional Expression (Culture)


  • We learn certain facial expression because it is the one recognized or approved by our culture.

  
• Emotional Expression (Silvan Solomon Tomkins)


  • Emotion is the basis of human motivation and the seat of emotion is the face.
• Emotional Expression (Paul Ekman and Carroll Izard)


  • They conducted "universality studies" demonstrating cross-cultural agreement in judgments of emotion in faces by people in both literate and preliterate cultures. They came up with seven emotions that have universal facial expression - anger, contempt, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise.
• Macroexpressions


  • Emotions that we do not intend to hide and occur whenever we are alone or with family and close friends.

  
• Microexpressions


  • Expressions that go on and off the face in a fraction of a second and can happen so fast that one cannot recognize or see them easily.
• Cognitive Component: Subjective Labeling


  A person decides what he or she feels after interpreting or explaining to himself what had happened.
• Emotional Intelligence


  The ability of a person to understand and express himself, to understand and relate well to others, and to successfully cope with the demands of daily life.

  
• Five Components of Emotional Intelligence

  • Self-awareness
  • Self-regulation
  • Motivation
  • Empathy
  • Social Skills

  
• Self-awareness


  The ability of a person to tune in to his own feelings
• Self-regulation


  The ability to control disruptive impulses caused by negative emotions such as anger, anxiety or depression
• Motivation


  Having an interest in learning and self-improvement. Having the strength to keep going when there are obstacles in life. Setting goals and following through with them.
• Empathy


  The ability to recognize and understand how other people feel
• Social Skills


  Usually referred to as "people skills" because they can influence, communicate and lead
• Motivation


  • You're inspired to accomplish goals because it helps you grow as a person, rather than doing it for outside rewards like money, fame, status, or recognition.
• Self-awareness


  • Analyn knows the reason for her feeling of sadness and loneliness
• Social Skills


  • Jen and her friends had been together celebrating their special events in life since they were in elementary years.
• Self-regulation


  • A person is trustworthy if he can maintain standards of honesty and integrity.
• Empathy


  • If you're sitting close to a loved one and they start to cry, you might begin to feel sad too.