Ch. 2 Personality, Self-Esteem & EmotionsSection 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Section 3: Expressing Your EmotionsSection Objectives:• Identify four primary emotions

and three learned emotions.• Explain why it is important to

recognize your emotions.• Distinguish helpful from harmful

coping strategies.

Section 3: Expressing Your EmotionsOne important part of a healthy

personality is being able to express emotions in appropriate ways.

An emotion is a reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Primary Emotions are emotions that are expressed by people in all cultures.HappinessSadnessAngerFear

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Happiness-People feel happy for

different reasons .Feeling happy makes

you feel good about yourself.

Think about what makes you happy?

Make room in your life for what makes you happy.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Sadness-A normal response to disappointing

events in your life.This feeling may cause you to cry,

eat more or less than normal, feel tired, or withdrawn from other around you.

Grief is a deep sadness or sorrow.How can you overcome sadness?

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Anger-Feelings of anger range from mild

resentment to intense rage.You may experience tense

muscles, increased heart rate and rapid breathing.

Anger is a normal response to feeling frustrated or helpless.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Fear-The emotion you feel when you

recognize a threat to your safety or security.

Helpful and harmful? How?

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Assignment:Read the Article

“Emotional Blackmail” by Susan Forward

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Learned EmotionsSome emotions are not expressed

in the same way by all people. These emotions are called social

emotions, or learned emotions.

Section 3: Expressing Your EmotionsThe expression of the learned

emotions depends on the social environment in which the person grows up.

LoveGuiltShame

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Love-This is understood as deep feelings

of affection and concern.Consider: -All the ways love is expressed-Gender differences in expression-All the things, places, people we

can love!

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Love is the most positive emotion people are capable of feeling. The capacity to give and receive love is essential for mental health.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Guilt-Guilt can stop you from doing

something you know is wrong , or it can make you correct a situation that has already happened.

Sometimes people feel guilty for something they didn’t cause- like a family issue.

Section 3: Expressing Your Emotions

Shame-This is different from guilt because

it focuses on the person rather than the action.

Shame can lower self-esteem. Feeling shame can also make a person less likely try to correct the bad situation.

Assignment: Analyze the Emotional angle of the News.

You have this assignment written out on Moodle.

Quick Summary: Due Tuesday, Sept. 29Use your iPad to research 2 news stories

(written or video) about the Syrian migrant crisis.

Compare the Emotional perspective of each news story.

Consider how you felt when you read/watched the stories.

Write out a quick summary of each story and describe the intended emotional perspective.