Emotions

Emotional triggers

They can be stimulated by external factors such as comments made by someone or by internal factors such as needs or thoughts.

5 basic emotions

Happy, sad, angry, disgust and fear

Subjective feelings

how your feeling in your head when experiencing an emotion (psychological).

Physiological response

what your body is doing when experiencing an emotion (biological).

Expressive behaviours

how you show an emotion mainly through facial expression and body language (social).

Survival function of emotions

Plutchik believes that all emotions perform an important survival function.

Primary and secondary emotions

Plutchik believes that there are primary and secondary emotions. Secondary emotions are formed by mixing primary emotions.

Intensity of emotions

Plutchik believes that all emotions range in intensity.

Opposite emotions

Plutchik believes that some emotions are the opposite of each other and cannot be mixed to create secondary emotions.

Positive and negative emotions

Plutchik believes that there are positive and negative emotions.

Schachter and Singer’s Two-Factor Theory

The way the emotion is identified depends on an individual’s interpretation of their situation (appraisal). Both physiological response and cognitive appraisal occur at the same time.

Cannon-Bard Theory

we feel emotions and experience physiological reactions such as sweating.

James-Lange Theory

each emotion has a unique physiological response, and the identification of that response leads to the specific emotion experienced.

Interviews to investigate emotions

They can obtain a lot of information, but very time consuming.

Questionnaires to investigate emotions

can be administered quickly and to many people at once. But people can be dishonest.

Self-monitoring to investigate emotions

it helps people stay in check with their emotions. But people may refuse to accept their emotions.

Mental illness and emotions

In some mental illnesses, the subjective experience of emotions is very intense. At the other extremity are people who report having no subjective experience of emotion.

Stress management and relaxation techniques

Talking face-to-face with a trusted friend, meditation, exercise and yoga.

Emotional intelligence

The ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress.

Self-awareness

Recognising your own emotions and how they affect your thoughts and behaviour.

Self-management

Controlling impulsive feelings and behaviours and managing your emotions in healthy ways.

Social-awareness

Understanding the emotions, needs, and concerns of other people.

Relationship-management

The ability to develop and maintain good relationships and communicate clearly.

Benefits of emotional intelligence

EI can help each of us build and maintain stronger and better relationship.

Developing emotional intelligence

Mindfulness can help you develop self-awareness, which is the first component of emotional intelligence