Book contents
- Essentials of Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Essentials of Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Chapter 2 Multicultural Humanistic Psychology
- Chapter 3 Empathy
- Chapter 4 Growth-Promoting Relationships
- Chapter 5 Mindful Self-Awareness
- Chapter 6 Understanding Emotions
- Chapter 7 Emotion Regulation
- Chapter 8 The Courage to Decide
- Chapter 9 Loneliness
- Chapter 10 Spirituality
- Chapter 11 Culturally Relative Self-Actualization
- Chapter 12 A Heuristic Exploration into the Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Understanding Emotions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2025
- Essentials of Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Essentials of Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Chapter 2 Multicultural Humanistic Psychology
- Chapter 3 Empathy
- Chapter 4 Growth-Promoting Relationships
- Chapter 5 Mindful Self-Awareness
- Chapter 6 Understanding Emotions
- Chapter 7 Emotion Regulation
- Chapter 8 The Courage to Decide
- Chapter 9 Loneliness
- Chapter 10 Spirituality
- Chapter 11 Culturally Relative Self-Actualization
- Chapter 12 A Heuristic Exploration into the Social and Emotional Intelligences
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the foundations of emotions from empirical research in neuroscience, biology, psychology, multiculturalism, and primatology. The phenomenon of emotional experience is depthless and ever complex. The reader learns to appreciate how social and emotional intelligences are necessary if one is to learn the nature of emotions. Cultural meanings, languages, and world paradigms may seek to define emotions. However, this chapter argues that by developing a multicultural humanistic psychology approach to understanding emotions, readers can appreciate their flowing nature that is not known by definition, but through relationship.
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- Essentials of Social and Emotional Intelligences , pp. 135 - 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025