Our Emotions Diary

Identifying and measuring our emotions is difficult because it is non easy to objectively assess what we are ruling at that specific situation for emotions are immanent experiences. To accurately identify the range of our emotions and to classify it decent takes greater control and self-awareness that I could not by chance muster. I have tried to identify the emotions ground on the situations that triggered it. The James-Lange theory of emotion said that we firstly have physiological responses to a situation and completely therefore will we interpret those experiences to determine the donation emotion (Zajonc & McIntosh, 1992).Which is actu each(prenominal)y how most of us suffice to an situation, like when I knew I felt vile because I was feeling uneasy by beat backting late for class. On the other hand, I excessively felt confused on whether I got it conglomerate up whether I experienced the situation and hence the physiological arousal together with the emotion go pastred at the same time, the Cannon-Bard theory supports this explanation although they did not guide much importance to the thoughts that occur during that experience (Stein, Trabasso & Liwag, 1993).Although, we get to experience a myriad of emotions and in vary degrees, some emotions are easier to identify like happiness and anger, while differentiating being upset from being regretful is difficult. I could categorize it according to whether it is positive or negative and when I smiled I knew that I was capable at that time. Facial feedback theory says that the facial changes that occur in response to an event cues our brain and then define what kind of emotion we feel at that moment (Strongman, 1996).I also observed that we tend to react to facial expressions, like when a person volley into tears we know that she is sad or afraid. With this activity, I learned that emotions, physical arousal, cognitive thoughts, and our brain act together to produce different emotions. A s to how all these element interact remains to be discovered, which I think will always be an thought that will remain a mystery.ReferencesStein, N., Trabasso, T. & Liwag, M. (1993). The representation and geological formation of emotionalexperience Unfolding the emotion episode. In M. Lewis & J. M. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of feelings (pp. 279-300). New York Guilford.Strongman, K. (1996). The Psychology of Emotion Theories of Emotion in Perspective, 4th ed.New York John Wiley & Sons.Zajonc, R. & McIntosh, D. (1992). Emotions look Some promising questions and somequestionable promises. psychological Science, 3, 70-74.