Group Emotion

There are three crucial aspects emotional awareness, harnessing emotions, and managing emotions. Emotions have the unique ability to alter our reality. In addition, emotions can be stirred up based on previous experiences. This is way it’s extremely important to be an emotionally healthy person. What is an emotionally healthy person? According to Humphreys, “ emotionally healthy persons have achieved basic harmony within themselves and a workable relationship with others” (Humphreys, 2002). We…

Emotion is described as a strong feeling deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. Our entire life’s revolves around emotion; from the day we are born, we cry for food, when we turn twelve we are happy as we think we are not kids anymore, and when we finally turn eighteen a ball of emotions rolls through our bodies. However, to what degree can emotion help or prevent us from gaining knowledge? In order to face this question, it is important to consider the mechanism…

in boys’ emotional Self-Regulation Strategies (SRS) from toddlerhood through to preschool using repeated observational assessments during delay of gratification tasks at 2-, 3-, and 4 years of age. Theory suggests young children initially use more emotion focused SRS before transitioning to greater use of planful SRS by 4 years of age, but according to the authors, little longitudinal research had been conducted, at the time of writing, on the changes in SRS in the early years of development,…

4.6 The Threat Factor Threats can influence decision and the response to threats is usually to strike or cause an onslaught. Garcia (2005) defines a threat as any intention to cause harm, damage or adverse action on someone or a group as a form of punishment or otherwise (p. 67). Decision arising from threats are usually centralized and sometimes irrational but very focused. That is why while such decisions may have long-lasting effect they also be unfavorable and those who made them may regret…

is “the ability to express emotion accurately, as well as the ability to understand emotion and emotional knowledge along with the ability to access and to generate feelings when they facilitate emotions in ways that insist thought”. However this is only part of the story ones emotional intelligence also allows them to adjust to and handle stress, anxiety, etc. One emotional intelligence directly relates to how one deals with these internal and external factors of emotion and how one reacts to…

Religion brings together a group of people with common interests and is likely to foster strong bonds in the process. Therefore it is not surprising that that religious believes and frequent prayers have a strong and direct relationship with life satisfaction and happiness (Poorsheikhali & Alavi, 2015, p.236). Prayer also helps me feel a greater sense of calmness which ultimately leads to happiness whenever I feel under the weather. Group prayer can also foster these same emotions if not…

Emotions are ways people express how they are feeling. They can be positive, but they can also be negative. Certain emotions can potentially have harmful effects on an individual and therefore, learning to handle emotions in a healthy way is important. As Gross (2013) describes in his article on emotional regulation, people utilize different strategies to regulate. One of the comparisons most often made in research is the contrast between suppression techniques and reappraisal techniques.…

considered as a therapeutic tool because of its various positive contributions towards a person’s well-being. As the prominent psychologist Martin Seligman briefly puts it, “PERMA is the ingredients to happiness.” PERMA consists of: (1) positive emotions; (2) engagement; (3)…

As emotion and reason cooperate? Although the reason and emotions can be perceived as absolutely opposite human characteristics, they are actually very closely related. These two features affect each other, and somehow help shape each other. The reason is often associated with the brain, while the emotions are connected more with the heart. The reason comes from the logic of the human, reasonable things, things that make sense in the mind of man, the things that are logical. Emotions, on the…

contemplating if I would be able to control my emotions and “refrain from the use of profanity.” Especially since this position is a representation of the University, I was apprehensive about my temper. Chickering’s second vector is managing emotions, which consists of the ability to understand, accept, and express emotions. Challenges and group projects are inevitable; therefore, by observing the contrasting personalities of the involvement group, it was evident that we would encounter…