Com110 Lesson 7
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Lesson 7 explains, “Most emotions are the result of our way of thinking. Debilitative emotions arise from accepting a number of irrational thoughts that are called fallacies.” Select one of the types of fallacies you think you may often accept or believe when you are experiencing debilitative emotions and explain why it is important to analyze your thinking to see if this fallacy is occurring. Describe how the concepts of emotion sharing and emotional intelligence can help you recognize and reduce illogical thinking on your part.
One of the fallacies I see in myself is helplessness. I have been told I say “it was it is” a lot. When I say that it means to me that those things are beyond my control, and I cannot change them. I was born with a disability that affects the left side of my body. I was told by multiple people while I was growing up “you can’t do that” because of my disability. I think with being told this really throughout my life I have adopted a fallacy of helplessness in my speech and attitude. As I share my feelings with people outside of my family, I find that the helplessness fallacy is not as prevalent.
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Why is it important to develop an emotional vocabulary? How does this enable us to have more control over our emotions when we communicate in an interpersonal communication situation?
Identify an advantage and a disadvantage for communicating emotions verbally and face-to-face
and identify an advantage and a disadvantage for communicating emotions using written words in electronic mediated channels.
If we do not know how to express our feeling it can build up until it is manifest in other ways. As we learn to express our emotions with words rather than bottling them up, we can create better
relationships with people. I tend to not verbalize my emotions to people face-to-face because of
the way people react when I express my emotions. If we write our emotions down, we can express them without the fear of immediate judgement. If we write, then down in mediated channels people can respond. When they respond we never know how they will respond it could be with compassion or it could be with anger like “nobody cares”. 3.
People display emotions in different ways. Chapter 6.3 explains, “The expression of emotions is influenced by sociocultural norms and display rules.” Why is it important for the sender to evaluate the sociocultural norms of the receiver and the relationship that may already exist before creating and delivering an emotional message? Why is it important for the sender to evaluate the norms and rules that exist in the context before delivering an emotional message to the receiver?
There are many things within cultures that those outside of the culture many do not understand, and expression of emotions might be one of those. It is important that we adapt our explanation of our emotions. If the sender thinks about who they are going to express their emotions so that people will understand their emotions. There is something that I have heard over and over know your audience. If we would all listen to that we would all be saved a lot of heartache. If the receiver does not understand your emotions it will not help the situation.
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It is important to understand the aspects of attitudes, beliefs, values and how these aspects help
us make sense of emotions. Explain how the sender’s attitudes, beliefs, or values could impact your understanding as the receiver when this person is sharing emotions with you. Explain how
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your own attitudes, beliefs, or values could affect how you are listening to the other person share these strong emotions.
Beliefs and values play a big part in our understanding of emotions. We are products of our environment. A lot of the time the sender is so deep into their emotions the tend to believe the things they are feeling and thinking more than what people tell them. 5.
One part of emotional intelligence is being able to effectively listen to another person’s expressions of emotion; empathy is a key aspect to this process. How can you stay in the role of the listener when using empathetic listening? How does empathetic listening help you to effectively respond to the sender’s emotions while staying in the role of the listener? For me the best way to stay in to have empathy while you are the listener is to not respond until
I am asked to respond. Because people just need to let their emotions out before they are ready
for a response. Sometimes they just need to let it out and do not need to have people respond. Another thing I do not need to hear is “I know how you feel” that is not empathy to me. To me that says they want to make me feel little.
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