RCT 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blood Sugar, Asian Americans, Internal Monologue

• School: St. John's University
• Department: Rhetoric, Communication, and Theatre
• Course: RCT 1000
• Professor: Jodi L. Van Der Horn-Gibson

Document Summary

Emotional intelligence is used to describe the ability to understand and manage one"s own emotions and to be sensitive to others" feelings. Physiological changes: when a person experiences strong emotions, many bodily changes occur. Increased heartbeat, rise in blood pressure, an increase in adrenaline secretions, elevated blood sugar level, slowing of digestion, and dilation of pupils. Nonverbal reactions: not all physical changes that accompany emotions are internal. Feelings are often apparent by observable changes to appearance, such as blushing or perspiring. Other changes involve: a distinctive facial expression, posture, gestures, different vocal tone, and rate, and so on: sometimes nonverbal behavior causes emotions. Verbal expression: most scholars acknowledge anger, joy, fear, and sadness as common and typical human emotions, we experience most emotions with different degrees of intensity and we use specific emotion words to represent these differences. Personality: science has established an increasingly clear relationship between personality and the way people experience and communicate emotions.