characteristics of emotion

• Adaptive


  -          emotion can be adaptive and help us deal with changing environment or stress

  -          through repression of emotions like diluting its intensity or significance or by over reacting such as working faster and harder, seeing stress as a challenge
• Physiological Changes


  -          changes within the body are a major element of fear, anger, joy, and other emotions

  -          these are involuntary reactions of the body

            -    these include changes in heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration, and other bodily reactions
• Emotional Expression


  -          these are manifestations of what the person feels such as trembling of hands, contortion of the face, tensed posture and when the intensity of fear becomes high, the person manifest defensiveness

  -          emotion may also be revealed through marked shifts in voice tone or modulation

  -          the ability of individuals to express emotions is important because it is a means to send their feelings to others
• Emotional Feelings


  -          the expression that a person may gather will reflect on his responses when he or she is placed in different situations