Expressing

emotions

Question # 1
How do emotions
feel in our bodies?

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/12/26/1321664111.full.pdf

Question # 2
How can we express
our emotions?

Possibility A. Express emotions unedited

Example:
Co-workers meet after work and release feelings
about the worst customers and/or about managers
saying what they feel and think.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/32548_3.pdf

Possibility B. Express emotions edited

Example:
Co-workers meet to share feelings about the worst
customers and/or managers but edits anger from
the tone of their voices.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/32548_3.pdf

Possibility C. Suppress emotions

Example:
A co-worker irritates you. You do not express anger
about your co-worker before you get home to your
family.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/32548_3.pdf

Possibility D. Fabricate an emotion

Example:
2 people have a disagreement. When a photo is
taken, they both smile although they are not happy.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/32548_3.pdf

Possibility E.
Substitute an emotion with another emotion
Example:
You are irritated by a certain rule or norm. You claim
openly that you are excited about this, although you
are not.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/32548_3.pdf

Question # 3
How can we express
emotions with our faces?

Joy / happiness

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/ekmans-six-basic-emotions-list-definitions-quiz.html#lesson

http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/studentHealthServices/documents/PDFs/mental-health/CWS_SOS_for_Emotions_Booklet.pdf

In order for my happiness or unhappiness to be

genuinely empathic, it has to be happiness or
unhappiness about what makes the other person
happy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/

Surprise

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/ekmans-six-basic-emotions-list-definitions-quiz.html#lesson

Anger

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/ekmans-six-basic-emotions-list-definitions-quiz.html#lesson

http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/studentHealthServices/documents/PDFs/mental-health/CWS_SOS_for_Emotions_Booklet.pdf

Sadness

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/ekmans-six-basic-emotions-list-definitions-quiz.html#lesson

http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/studentHealthServices/documents/PDFs/mental-health/CWS_SOS_for_Emotions_Booklet.pdf

Disgust

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/ekmans-six-basic-emotions-list-definitions-quiz.html#lesson

Fear

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/ekmans-six-basic-emotions-list-definitions-quiz.html#lesson

http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/studentHealthServices/documents/PDFs/mental-health/CWS_SOS_for_Emotions_Booklet.pdf

Question # 4
How can we express
emotions with our hands?

Before leaving work each day,

employees at Ubiquity Retirement
+ Savings register their emotions by
pressing a button in the lobby.
They have 5 buttons to choose from.
One of the buttons is a smiley face.
https://hbr.org/2016/01/manage-your-emotional-culture

http://www.nikoniko.co/

Avoid sending a message in the middle of a

strong negative feeling, for example anger.

https://hbr.org/2016/05/outsmart-your-next-angry-outburst