Ch. 2 Personality, Self-Esteem & Emotions Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Section Objectives: Identify four primary emotions and three learned emotions. Explain why it is important to recognize your emotions. Distinguish helpful from harmful coping strategies.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions One important part of a healthy personality is being able to express emotions in appropriate ways. An emotion is a reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Primary Emotions are emotions that are expressed by people in all cultures. Happiness Sadness Anger Fear

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Happiness- People feel happy for different reasons . Feeling happy makes you feel good about yourself. Think about what makes you happy? Make room in your life for what makes you happy.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Sadness- A normal response to disappointing events in your life. This feeling may cause you to cry, eat more or less than normal, feel tired, or withdrawn from other around you. Grief is a deep sadness or sorrow. How can you overcome sadness?

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Anger- Feelings of anger range from mild resentment to intense rage. You may experience tense muscles, increased heart rate and rapid breathing. Anger is a normal response to feeling frustrated or helpless.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Fear- The emotion you feel when you recognize a threat to your safety or security. Helpful and harmful? How?

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Assignment: Read the Article “Emotional Blackmail” by Susan Forward

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Learned Emotions Some emotions are not expressed in the same way by all people. These emotions are called social emotions, or learned emotions.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions The expression of the learned emotions depends on the social environment in which the person grows up. Love Guilt Shame

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Love- This is understood as deep feelings of affection and concern. Consider: -All the ways love is expressed -Gender differences in expression -All the things, places, people we can love!

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Love is the most positive emotion people are capable of feeling. The capacity to give and receive love is essential for mental health.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Guilt- Guilt can stop you from doing something you know is wrong , or it can make you correct a situation that has already happened. Sometimes people feel guilty for something they didn’t cause- like a family issue.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions Shame- This is different from guilt because it focuses on the person rather than the action. Shame can lower self-esteem. Feeling shame can also make a person less likely try to correct the bad situation.

Assignment: Analyze the Emotional angle of the News. You have this assignment written out on Moodle. Quick Summary: Due Tuesday, Sept. 29 Use your iPad to research 2 news stories (written or video) about the Syrian migrant crisis. Compare the Emotional perspective of each news story. Consider how you felt when you read/watched the stories. Write out a quick summary of each story and describe the intended emotional perspective.