2. What Are Emotions?
• Factors of Emotions
-Physiological
-Nonverbal
-Verbal
-Cognitive
Interpretations
• Emotional
Intelligence
3. Influences on Emotional Expression
• Personality
• Culture
• Gender
• Fear of Self-Disclosure
• Emotional Contagion
4. Guidelines for Expressing Emotions
• Recognize your
feelings
• Recognize the
difference between
feeling, talking, and
acting
• Expand your
emotional
vocabulary
• Share multiple
feelings
5. Guidelines for Expressing Emotions (cont.)
• Consider when and
where to express
your feelings
• Accept responsibility
for your feelings
• Be mindful of the
communication
channel
6. Managing Difficult Emotions
• Facilitative and
Debilitative Emotions
• Intensity and duration
• Sources of Debilitative
Emotions
• Physiology
• Emotional Memory
• Self Talk
• Fallacies
• Of Perfection
• Of Approval
• Of Should’s
• Of Overgeneralizations
7. Managing Difficult Emotions (cont.)
• Fallacy of Causation
• When we believe others
cause our emotions
• Fallacy of helplessness
• Satisfaction in life is
determined by forces
beyond your control
• Fallacy of catastrophic
expectations
• Operate in the assumption
that if something bad can
happen
8. Emotions & Riding in Cars With Boys
Intro & What Are Emotions?
Vinnie
Influences on Emotional Expression Jesus
Guidelines for Expressing Emotions p. I
Amanda
Guidelines for Expressing Emotions p. II Cleo
