Emotion and stress
How emotions arise, how stress affects body and mind, and how both can be regulated.
8 terms
Understanding emotions
What kinds of emotion there are, and the ability to read and use them.
- Plutchik’s wheel of emotions 普拉切克情绪轮
- Plutchik’s circular model arranging eight basic emotions by similarity, opposition and intensity, with blends between neighbors.
- Emotional intelligence 情绪智力
- The ability to perceive, use, understand and manage emotions; popularly called EQ.
Stress responses
What happens to the body and to performance under pressure.
- Fight-or-flight response 战斗-逃跑反应
- The body’s rapid stress reaction that prepares a person or animal to fight or flee a threat.
- Yerkes–Dodson law 耶克斯-多德森定律
- A 1908 finding that the best stimulus strength depends on task difficulty, later generalized into an inverted-U curve.
Emotion regulation
Ideas and skills for bringing emotions back into a manageable range.
- Window of tolerance 情绪容纳之窗
- The range of arousal in which a person can handle emotions and stress, between hyperarousal and hypoarousal.
- Wise mind 智慧心
- In DBT, the state of mind that integrates reason and emotion, drawing on a person’s inner wisdom.
Loss and grief
How people respond after losing someone, and the models used to describe grief.
- Five stages of grief 哀伤五阶段
- Kübler-Ross’s five stages, first described in dying patients, often misapplied as a fixed sequence for all grief.
- Growing around grief 围绕哀伤成长
- The idea that grief does not shrink over time; instead, a person’s life grows larger around it.