Understand Emotions
Emotions contain information, and our ability to understand this information and think about it plays an important role in our day to day life. The first component of understanding emotions, includes knowledge of the emotional lexicon, including simple and complex emotion terms, and the ways in which emotions combine (anger and disgust form contempt), progress (annoyance to anger to rage), and transition to one another. This skill also involves the capacity to analyze emotions and their causes and the ability to predict how people will feel and react in different situations. This skill answers such questions as: Why are we feeling anxious; If I say this to my friend, how will he feel; What will happen if I say that to her?