The Emotional Crew

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Across
  1. 4. Allowing emotions to dominate your thoughts and explosively expressing them, such as shrieking in happiness or storming into an office in a rage.
  2. 5. emotions- Two or more primary emotions experienced at the same time.
  3. 10. An intense reaction to an event that involves interpreting the meaning of the event, becoming physiologically aroused, labeling the experience as emotional, attempting to manage your reaction, and communicating this reaction in the form of emotional displays and disclosures.
  4. 13. contagion- The rapid spreading of emotion from person to person, such as anger running through a mob.
  5. 15. Inhibiting thoughts, arousal, and outward behavioral displays of emotion
  6. 16. Low-intensity states of mind that are not caused by particular events and typically last longer than emotions.
  7. 17. Avoidance- Preventing unwanted emotions by keeping away from people, places, and activities likely to provoke them
  8. 18. Preventing unwanted emotions by systematically desensitizing yourself to emotional experience
  9. 20. emotions- Six emotions that involve unique and consistent behavioral displays across cultures.
  10. 21. Strategy- A strategy to manage anger that involves counting slowly to 10 before responding to someone who says or does something that makes you angry.
  11. 22. Within the field of interpersonal communication, the assumption that openly expressing emotions enables you to purge them.
  12. 23. intelligence- The ability to accurately interpret your and others’ emotions and use this information to manage emotions, communicate them competently, and solve relationship problems.
Down
  1. 1. Emotive Behavior Therapy- A therapy developed by psychologist Albert Ellis that helps neurotic patients systematically purge themselves of the tendency to think negative thoughts about themselves.
  2. 2. hostility- A persistent state of simmering or barely suppressed anger and near-constant state of arousal and negative thinking
  3. 3. A protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship
  4. 6. Management- Attempts to influence which emotions you have, when you have them, and how you experience and express them.
  5. 7. communication- Sharing messages that express emotional support and that offer personal assistance, such as extending your sympathy or listening to someone without judging.
  6. 8. Structing- Preventing unwanted emotions by intentionally avoiding discussion of difficult topics in encounters with others.
  7. 9. Focus- Preventing unwanted emotions by intentionally devoting your attention only to aspects of an event or encounter that you know will not provoke those emotions
  8. 10. Disclosing your emotions to others.
  9. 11. Actively changing how you think about the meaning of emotion-eliciting situations so that their emotional impact is changed
  10. 12. Your allowing emotions to naturally arise without damping or fanning them, and acknowledging that they are an inherent component of human nature, neither good nor bad.
  11. 14. Short-term emotional reactions to events that generate only limited arousal, such as the fleeting nostalgia you experience hearing a familiar song.
  12. 19. The negative primary emotion that occurs when you are blocked or interrupted from attaining an important goal by what you see as the improper action of an external agent.