In psychology, emotional expression is observable verbal and nonverbal behaviour that communicates emotion. Psychology (from Greek grc ψῡχή psȳkhē, "breath life soul" and grc -λογία -logia) is an Academic and Nonverbal communication (NVC is usually understood as the process of Communication through sending and receiving Wordless messages An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings thoughts and behaviours Emotional expression can occur with or without self-awareness. An individual can control such expression, to some extent, and may have deliberate intent in displaying it. [1]
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Emotional regulation
Various researchers have highlighted the importance for an individual of being able to successfully regulate emotions. Ways of doing this include cognitive reappraisal — interpreting a situation in positive terms, and expressive suppression — masking signs of inner emotional states. [1]
Ventilation hypothesis
Critiques
In Expressing Negative Emotions: Healthy Catharsis or Sign of Pathology?, Milton Spett refers to opponents of the ventilation hypothesis:
In the past year, a number of publications have argued convincingly for a paradigm shift in our view of expressing negative emotions. In "Expressing Emotion" (New York: the Guilford Press, 1999), Eileen Kennedy-Moore and Jeanne Watson carefully review the empirical research on the "ventilation hypothesis," the widely-accepted belief that expressing negative emotions, such as anger, sadness, or fear, is good for our mental health, our physical health, and our interpersonal relationships. Eileen Kennedy-Moore is a New Jersey-based clinical Psychologist and the author or co-author of professional and lay books and articles on children's emotions such as Expressing The authors draw the surprising conclusion that expressing negative emotions tends to increase rather than decrease the emotions, and does not necessarily improve our mental or physical health.
The rest of the article includes these points:
- experiencing emotions rather than expressing emotions that can lead to cognitive reappraisal and improved mental and physical health
- the most effective therapeutic interventions should include both moderate emotional expression and cognitive reappraisal.
See also
- Affect display
- coping (psychology)
- Emotions and culture
- Facial communication
- facial expression
- microexpression
Notes
- ^ a b Dorset Research & Development Support Unit, 2003. See also Emotion In Psychology, affect display or affective display is a subject's externally displayed affect. The psychological definition of coping is the process of managing taxing circumstances expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems and seeking Emotions are universal phenomena however they are affected by Culture. A facial expression results from one or more motions or positions of the Muscles of the Face. A facial expression results from one or more motions or positions of the Muscles of the Face. The term microexpression denotes a brief Facial expression that lasts less than a quarter of a second "Emotional Expression." Retrieved on: July 23, 2007. Events 1632 - Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe France. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
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