NSE11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Emotions, 6 Years, Personal Fable
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Emotional intelligence --> a set of abilities that contribute to competence in the social and emotional domains. Importance of emotional intelligence: predicts how well people do in life, especially in their social lives. Emotion --> emotion is characterized by neural and physiological responses, subjective feelings, cognitions related to those feelings, and the desire to take action. Seeing emotions in terms of several components: neural responses involved in emotion. Physiological factors including heart and breath rate and hormone levels. The cognitions or perceptions that cause or are associated with the aforementioned neural and physiological responses and subjective feelings. The desire to take action, including the desire to escape, approach or change people or things in the environment. Emotions can involve expressive behavior and cognitive interpretations of or reactions to the feeling state. Example --> when people experience fear in response to a growling dog. According to sroufe there are three basic affect systems.
