The emotion definition is Our feelings about ourselves and others - The term emotion encompasses both the internal feelings of one person as well as feelings that can be experienced in a relationship. Basic emotions: Common and universal feelings (e.g., happiness, surprise, sadness, fear, and anger) Blended emotions: Mixture of basic emotions (e.g., Jealousy, hate) Nonverbal markers of emotion Changes in appearance that occur when a person experiences affect. Communication is a process of expressing emotions. Ability to read nuances in own and others’ emotions and moods Ability to see others’ perspectives Are we always successful reading others’ minds and empathizing with them? After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a mental institution, Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) winds up living with his parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). He wants to rebuild his life and reunite with his wife, but his parents would be happy if he just shared their obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange. SISHI GUO Professor CHOI Communication Relationship Activity paper 2 2016.April.6 The importance of Emotion The movie “Silver Linings Playbook” is a story about two psychopath’s life. Generally speaking, the most related to psycho problem is emotion controlling. There are a lot of emotion topic including in this movie. I will focus on the emotions learned from the class to discuss with the movie. In this movie, Pat Solatano is a person who gets the manic-depressive psychosis because of her wife’s cheating. He lost his job and wife after he finish the therapy of the mental disorder in a mental institution. But he is a so positive and optimistic that he wants to rebuild his life and he also wants to reunite with his wife. When he winds up living with his parents, he meets a girl named Tiffany, who also has some disorder in mental, but she helps him to connect with his wife . Moreover, Tiffany and Pat influence each other from a bad situation to get better and heal at the end via the contacting and dancing. Finally, their relationship has changed from “enemy” to a couple. Many experiences happened between them are related even depends on their emotions.In other words, the emotions in this movie is a important part to direct their relationship. The definition of emotions is “ Our feelings about ourselves and others - The term emotion encompasses both the internal feelings of one person as well as feelings that can be experienced in a relationship”. People have many types emotion in their life such as basic emotions and blended emotions. The Basic emotions is a common and universal feelings such as happiness,suprise and anger. And the Blended emotions is mixture of basic emotions such as jealousy and hate. In the movie, we can easier ...

1. The emotion definition is Our feelings about ourselves and
others - The term emotion encompasses both
the internal feelings of one person as well as feelings that can
be experienced in a relationship.
Basic emotions: Common and universal feelings (e.g.,
happiness, surprise, sadness, fear, and anger)
Blended emotions: Mixture of basic emotions (e.g., Jealousy,
hate)
Nonverbal markers of emotion Changes in appearance that occur
when a person experiences affect.
Communication is a process of expressing emotions.
Ability to read nuances in own and others’ emotions and moods
Ability to see others’ perspectives
Are we always successful reading others’ minds and
empathizing with them?
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a mental
institution, Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) winds up living with
his parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). He wants to rebuild
his life and reunite with his wife, but his parents would be
happy if he just shared their obsession with the Philadelphia
Eagles. Things get complicated when Pat meets Tiffany
(Jennifer Lawrence), who offers to help him reconnect with his
wife, if he will do something very important for her in
exchange.

2. SISHI GUO
Professor CHOI
Communication Relationship
Activity paper 2
2016.April.6
The importance of Emotion
The movie “Silver Linings Playbook” is a story about two
psychopath’s life. Generally speaking, the most related to
psycho problem is emotion controlling. There are a lot of
emotion topic including in this movie. I will focus on the
emotions learned from the class to discuss with the movie.
In this movie, Pat Solatano is a person who gets the
manic-depressive psychosis because of her wife’s cheating. He
lost his job and wife after he finish the therapy of the mental
disorder in a mental institution. But he is a so positive and
optimistic that he wants to rebuild his life and he also wants to
reunite with his wife. When he winds up living with his parents,
he meets a girl named Tiffany, who also has some disorder in
mental, but she helps him to connect with his wife . Moreover,
Tiffany and Pat influence each other from a bad situation to get
better and heal at the end via the contacting and dancing.
Finally, their relationship has changed from “enemy” to a
couple. Many experiences happened between them are related
even depends on their emotions.In other words, the emotions in
this movie is a important part to direct their relationship.
The definition of emotions is “ Our feelings about ourselves and
others - The term emotion encompasses both the internal
feelings of one person as well as feelings that can be
experienced in a relationship”.
People have many types emotion in their life such as
basic emotions and blended emotions. The Basic emotions is a
common and universal feelings such as happiness,suprise and
anger. And the Blended emotions is mixture of basic emotions

3. such as jealousy and hate. In the movie, we can easier to get
these emotions appearing in two characters.The easiest one we
can find is angry. Pat is always showing angry emotion after he
comes out from mental institution. Pat’s action and words show
his angry. One scene is that he can not find his marriage video
at the mid-night and he is bothering his parents’ sleeping and
quarreling.
“You have to do everything you can, you have to work
your haredst, and if you do, if you stay positive, you have a
shot at a silver lining.”