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- Emotions are clearly personal, as they often project what we’re feeling on the inside to those around us whether we want it to show or not. Emotions are also interpersonal in that another person’s show of emotion usually triggers a reaction from us—perhaps support if the person is a close friend or awkwardness if the person is a stranger.
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Emotions are central to any interpersonal relationship, and it’s important to know what causes and influences emotions so we can better understand our own emotions and better respond to others when they display emotions.
- 11.1 Informative Speeches
Creating an Informative Speech. As you’ll recall from...
- 6.2 Conflict and Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal conflict may be expressed verbally or...
- 10.4 Physical Delivery
Facial expressions help set the emotional tone for a speech,...
- 13.2 Small Group Development
Norming. During the norming stage of group development, the...
- 4.4 Nonverbal Communication in Context
A central function of nonverbal communication is the...
- 3.1 Language and Meaning
The Triangle of Meaning. The triangle of meaning is a model...
- 3.3 Using Words Well
Whole messages help keep lines of communication open, which...
- 14.2 Group Member Roles
Just as leaders have been long studied as a part of group...
- 11.1 Informative Speeches
Dec 17, 2020 · Emotions are central to any interpersonal relationship, and it’s important to know what causes and influences emotions so we can better understand our own emotions and better respond to others when they display emotions.
Emotions are central to any interpersonal relationship, and it’s important to know what causes and influences emotions so we can better understand our own emotions and better respond to others when they display emotions (University of Minnesota, 2016).
- Understanding Emotions
- Communicating Emotions
- Emotional Intelligence
- Debilitative Emotions and Emotional Expression
Emotion versus Feeling
To start our examination of the idea of emotions and feelings and how they relate to harmony and discord in a relationship, it’s important to differentiate between emotions and feelings. Emotions are our physical reactions to stimuli in the outside environment. They can be objectively measured by blood flow, brain activity, and nonverbal reactions to things because they are activated through neurotransmitters and hormones released by the brain. Feelingsare the conscious experience of emotiona...
Intrapersonal Functions of Emotions
Emotions are rapid information-processing systems that help us act with minimal thinking (Tooby & Cosmides, 2008). Problems associated with birth, battle, death, and seduction have occurred throughout evolutionary history and emotions evolved to aid humans in adapting to those problems rapidly and with minimal conscious cognitive effort. If we did not have emotions, we could not make rapid decisions concerning whether to attack, defend, flee, care for others, reject food, or approach somethin...
Emotions Prepare the Body for Immediate Action
Emotions prepare us for behavior. When triggered, emotions orchestrate systems such as perception, attention, inference, learning, memory, goal choice, motivational priorities, physiological reactions, motor behaviors, and behavioral decision-making (Cosmides & Tooby, 2000; Cosmides & Tooby, 2008). Emotions simultaneously activate certain systems and deactivate others in order to prevent the chaos of competing systems operating at the same time, allowing for coordinated responses to environme...
Emotional Awareness
Sadly, many people are unaware of their own emotions. Emotional awareness, or an individual’s ability to clearly express, in words, what they are feeling and why is an extremely important factor in effective interpersonal communication. Unfortunately, our emotional vocabulary is often quite limited. One extreme version of not having an emotional vocabulary is called alexithymia, “a general deficit in emotional vocabulary—the ability to identify emotional feelings, differentiate emotional stat...
“You” Statements
“You are mean.” “You make me feel unloved.” “You don’t care about me.” According to Marshall Rosenberg (2003), the father of nonviolent communication, “You” statements ultimately are moralistic judgments where we imply the wrongness or badness of another person and the way they have behaved. When we make moralistic judgments about others, we tend to deny responsibility for our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Remember, when it comes to feelings, no one can “make” you feel a specific way. We...
I statements
Furthermore, using “I” statements allows us to own our feelings and reactions and acknowledge the ownership of them. Compare this to “you” messages, which negatively evaluate the other person’s behavior and places the blame on them. Consider the difference between “I feel worried when I don’t hear right back from you” vs. “You always ignore me!” Beware of starting off with an “I” statement and switching over to a “you” message, as this negates the purpose of using “I” language in the first pl...
Self-awareness refers to a person’s ability to understand their feelings from moment to moment. It might seem as if this is something we know, but we often go about our day without thinking or bein...Self-managementrefers to our ability to manage our emotions and is dependent on our self-awareness ability. How do we handle frustration, anger, and sadness? Are we able to control our behaviors an...Social awarenessis our ability to understand social cues that may affect others around us. In other words, understanding how another is feeling, even if we do not feel the same way. Social awarenes...Relationship management refers to our ability to communicate clearly, maintain good relationships with others, work well in teams, and manage conflict. Relationship management relies on your abilit...Bloch, L., Haase, C. M., & Levenson, R. W. (2014). Emotion regulation predicts marital satisfaction: More than a wives’ tale. Emotion, 14(1), 130–144. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034272 Cherniss, Cary. (2000). Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, LA, April 15, 2000. Accessed F...
Sep 2, 2019 · More than just communicating on facts, it is important to indicate emotional states to our relatives to ensure long-lasting connections, using verbal and non-verbal cues and signals. This is...
May 18, 2022 · Explain the interrelationships among emotions and feelings. Describe emotional awareness and its importance to interpersonal communication. Differentiate between “I” and “You” statements. Explain the concept of emotional intelligence.
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Emotions serve important functions in our relationships and lives. Effectively communicating emotions takes awareness and understanding of communication strategies. Emotional intelligence can be learned and is important to our emotional well-being.
