PSYC*4160 Lecture 5: Emotions
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Conflict always take place on the emotional dimension: to be in conflict means that you will feel some emotional charge, discomfort emotion because of this lack of emotion". When humans feel safe we are much more likely to employ constructive conflict management approach when we are filled with fear. When we perceive a threat to our identity, we will feel some kind of strong emotion. States of emotional arousal are labeled as different feelings, depending on what one believes to be true: feelings connected to appraisal of what is real and true in a situation. Someone else may experience something else that is equally as true. Feelings are facts we feel what we feel. Interpretations are subject to change based on conversation and new information: transform our feelings when we derive new information, practice empathy, hold ourselves open for a third story, and abandon bad habits that keep us from learning. Emotions can alert us that we are missing something.
