Question

List any 3 positive emotions and 3 negative emotions. How can you creativity use each to become more emotionally intelligent

Answer 1

The term ‘emotion’ is notoriously difficult to define. As Fehr and Russell put it: ‘everyone knows what emotion is until asked to give a definition’. Yet we all use this term and seem to easily understand to what, in our experience, it relates.

Psychologists often employ the notion of affect as an umbrella term for various positive and negative emotions, feelings and moods we frequently experience and easily recognise. In this chapter, I’ll consider two ‘affective’ topics popular within positive psychology – positive emotions and emotional intelligence.