Exam 9: Emotions

When your best friend gets a scholarship to a college you hope to attend, you are overwhelmed by conflicting feelings of admiration, excitement, and envy. How should you respond to your friend?

Research on emotional expression suggests that there is some truth in the cultural stereotype of the __________ male and the __________ female

Studies show that people with higher emotional granularity make fewer visits to doctors and hospitals.

Describe the steps that help minimize debilitative emotions.

Describe and provide examples of each of the four components of emotions.

Which feeling do scholars acknowledge is a typical and common human emotion?

Members of which culture prize harmony among members of their "in-group" and are less frank about expressing negative emotions toward outsiders?

Being in touch with your emotions, also known as __________, is one of the 5 attributes of __________.

People afflicted by the fallacy of perfection often see themselves as victims of forces beyond their control.

"Pleased" is a word that suggests a different degree of emotional __________ than "thrilled."

Which statement is TRUE about gender and emotion?

Holding expectations for yourself and for others can promote which fallacy?

You consider it a compliment when a trusted friend calls you ambitious, but a criticism when a competitive co-worker labels you such. This illustrates how the same __________ can cause different emotions.

One five-minute episode of anger can impair your immune system for how many hours?

Emotional intelligence involves which of the following abilities?

Monitoring thoughts and verbal messages are both ways of helping you with which first step for effective emotional expression?

What are 3 ways of expressing feelings verbally?

Which emotion is a particularly unhealthy focus of rumination?

What are 5 steps for expressing emotions effectively?

The presence of your serene best friend always make you feel calm when you're stressed. What is this process called?