Emotional Bytes

Enough of the gloom. We look at the appraisals associated with positive emotions.. Spoiler: pleasantness, certainty and relevance.

Today we look at those self-conscious social emotions - shame, guilt and pride. What influences it? How can we understand it?

Today we look at disappointment and regret and in particular, what is the relationship of guilt and regret to our values and what appraisals shape these feelings.

We explore “Modes of Action Readiness”,how these emotions manifest in the body, and the effect that this has on the manifestation of two different types of anger reactions and two different types of sadness.

Exploring the negative interpersonal emotions - Anger, Contempt and Hatred. What unconscious processes give rise to these emotional concepts? How are they similar? How are they different?

How scientists model the different mental processes and language concepts that contribute to our mind’s understanding of what is happening in our body and environment to apply meaning out of that information with concepts that we call appraisals.

We look at the different conscious and unconscious levels that emotions are processed, how we build our understanding of what is happening in our body and the world around us to produce emotional experiences and the functions they serve.

We investigate Invisible Structures: those mental, emotional and social structures, largely invisible, mostly unconscious that influence our interactions with other people, ourselves and our environment. How can they be revealed? How can they be changed?

Exploring Kazimierz Dąbrowski's theory of personality development. Dąbrowski's theory of positive disintegration challenges traditional psychological views by recontextualizing negative emotional experiences as opportunities for growth and development, highlighting the importance of internal conflict in self-discovery, and emphasizing the role of personal agency in shaping one's personality.

Today we look at the work of Murray Bowen and his theory of the family as an emotional system that are characterized by the amount of differentiation vs enmeshment between the family members, which reflects the level of emotional turbulence in the family.