UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS
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* INCREASED ABILITY TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS
* BETTER AT RESOLVING CONFLICTS AND NEGOTIATING DISAGREEMENTS
* BETTER AT SOLVING PROBLEMS IN RELATIONSHIPS
* MORE ASSERTIVE AND SKILLED AT COMMUNICATING
* MORE POPULAR AND OUTGOING, FRIENDLY AND INVOLVED WITH PEERS
* MORE SOUGHT OUT BY PEERS
* MORE CONCERNED AND CONSIDERATE
* MORE "PRO-SOCIAL" AND CONSIDERATE
* MORE SHARING, COOPERATION, AND HELPFULNESS'
* MORE DEMOCRATIC IN DEALING WITH OTHERS
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ONE ITEM ON THIS LIST DEMANDS SPECIAL ATTENTION, EMOTIONAL LITERALLY PROGRAMS IMPROVE CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS SCORES AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE. IN A TIME WHEN TOO MANY CHILDREN LACK THE CAPACITY TO HANDLE THEIR UPSETS, TO LISTEN OR FOCUS, TO REIN IN IMPULSE, TO FEEL RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR WORK OR CARE ABOUT LEARNING, ANYTHING THAT WILL BUTTRESS THESE SKILLS WILL HELP THEIR EDUCATION. IN THIS SENSE, EMOTIONAL LITERACY ENHANCES SCHOOL'S ABILITY TO TEACH EVEN IN A TIME OF BACK-TO-BASICS AND BUGET CUTS, THERE IS AN ARGUMENT TO BE MADE THAT THESE PROGRAMS HELP REVERSE A TIDE OF EDUCATIONAL DECLINE AND STRENGTHEN SCHOOL IS ACCOMPLISHING THEIR MAN MISSION, AND SO ARE WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT.
BEYOND THESE EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGE, THE COURSES TO HELP CHILDREN BETTER FULFILL THEIR ROLES IN LIFE, BECOMING BETTER FRIENDS, STUDENTS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS - AND IN THE FUTURE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE BETTER HUSBANDS AND WIVES, WORKERS AND BOSSESS, PARENTS, AND CITIZENS, WHILE NOT EVERY BOY AND GIRS WILL ACQUIRE THESE SKILLS WITH EQUAL SURENESS, TO THE DEGREE THEY DO WE ARE ALL THE BETTER FOR IT. A RISING TIDE LIFT ALL BOATS. AS TIM SHRIVER PUT IT. IT'S NOT JUST THE KIDS WITH PROBLEMS, BUT KIDS WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THESE SKILLS, THESE ARE AN INOCULATION FOR LIFE.
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A WORD ABOUT WHAT I REFER TO UNDER THE RUBRIC EMOTION, A TERM WHOSE PRECISE MEANING PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS HAVE QUIBBLED OVER FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. IN ITS MOST LITERAL SENSE, THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY DEFINES EMOTION AS "ANY AGITATION OR DISTURBANCE OF MIND, FEELING, PASSION, ANY VEHEMENT OR EXCITED MENTAL STATE. I TAKE EMOTION TO REFER TO A FEELING AND ITS DISTINTIVE THOUGHTS, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BILOGICAL STATES, AND RANGE OF PROPENSITIES TO ACT. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF EMOTIONS, ALONG WITH THEIR BLENDS, VARIATIONS, MUTATIONS, AND NUANCES. INDEED, THERE ARE MANY MORE SUBTLETIES OF EMOTION THAT WE HAVE WORDS FOR.
RESEARCHERS CONTINUE TO ARGUE OVER PRECISELY WHICH EMOTIONS CAN BE CONSIDERED PRIMARY - THE BLUE, RED, AND YELLOW OF FEELING FROM WHICH ALL BLENDS COME - OR EVEN IF THERE ARE SUCH PRIMARY EMOTIONS AT ALL. SOME THEORISTS PROPOSE BASIC FAMILIES, THOUGH, NOT ALL AGREE ON THEM. THE MAIN CANDIDATES AND SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES.
* ANGER : FURY, OUTRAGE, RESENTMENT, WRATH, EXASPERATION, INDIGATION, VEXATION, ACRIMONY, ANIMOSITY, ANNOYANCE, IRRITABILITY, HOSTILITY, AND , PERHAPS AT THE EXREME, PATHOLOGICAL HATRED AND VIOLENCE
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* SADNESS : GRIEF, SORROW, CHEERLESSNESS, GLOOM, MELANCHLOGY, SELF-PITY, LONELINESS, DEJECTION, DESPAIR, AND , WHEN PATHOLOGICAL, SEVERE DEPRESSION .
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* FEAR : ANXIETY, APPREHENSION, NERVOUSNESS, CONCERN, CONSTRERNATION, MISGIVING, WARINESS, QUALM, EDGINESS, DREAD, FRIGHT, TERROR, AS A PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PHOBIA AND PANIC.
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* ENJOYMENT : HAPPINESS, JOY, RELIEF, CONTENTMENT, BLISS, DELIGHT, AMUSEMENT, PRIDE, SENSUAL PLEASURE, THRILL, RAPTURE, GRATIFICATION, SATISFACTION, EUPHORIA, WHIMSY, ECSTASY, AND AT THE FAR EDGE, MANIA.
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* LOVE : ACCEPTANCE, FRIENDILNESS, TRUST, KINDNESS, AFFINITY, DEVOTION, ADORATION, INFATUTION, AGAPE
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* SURPRISE : SHOCK, ASTONISHMENT, AMAZEMENT, WONDER
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* DISGUST : CONTEMPT, DISDAIN, SCORN, ABHORRENCE, AVERSION, DISTASTE, REVULSION.
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* SHAME : GUILT, EMBARRASSMENT, CHAGRIN, REMORSE, HUMILIATION, REGRET, MORTIFICATION, AND CONTRITION.
