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Our overall topic was Emotions, but we narrowed it down into 2 categories of emotions. Dylan chose longterm effects of being emotionally distant, while Claire chose the physical differences in men and women's ability to process emotion. We chose this topic because we know the general stereo-types of emotions is men are meant to be angry and tough all the time, while women are known to be very sad

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I chose to do a project like this because I know there are many reactions when it comes to seeing a person cry. Although these reactions tend to differ when gender is involved. It is proven that men are meant to handle their feelings, while women need to be reassured when they cry.

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This is the script for my media project, a radio talk show, and the script is Claire asking me questions and me answering them.

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This article tells us that it is possible to control emotion, but it is extremely hard to do. If you can control your motions, you won't be known as "the over reactive one", or the "drama king/queen".

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I recently asked my 12-year-old son if he believed that emotions, in general, are controllable. He gave me a reluctant yes, before assuring me that it was the hardest thing to do in the world. What if there was a trick, I persisted, that would make it easy to control emotions? He'd be interested, he said, but I shouldn't count on him using the trick too often. The challenges of befriending pre-adolescent passions aside, I learned something important about his beliefs about emotions: that it's not only possible to be in charge of them, but that emotions, by and large, are not bad. That there is use, sometimes even pleasure, in riding along with their ever-changing waves-even the annoying emotions, like frustration, and the fiery ones, like anger.

While countless studies in psychology have explored the influence of emotions on well-being, recent research suggests that the beliefs we hold about our emotions can have important implications on our psychological health. Consider the belief about the controllability of emotions. Do you believe that emotions are controllable (" shaped and modulated according to our will") or that they are uncontrollable (" arriving unbidden and departing of their own accord") (Ford et al., 2018)? Innocuous as they may seem, we pay a high cost for these beliefs: Not only can they become risk factors for depression, but they can also guide the strategies we use to manage our emotions in our everyday lives.

According to Brett Ford from the University of Toronto, we all are emotion theorists, deciding for ourselves what we believe about emotions. Which emotion theory should we then try to subscribe to for better psychological outcomes? From Dr. Ford's research on emotion beliefs, the answer seems clear: "On average, it's beneficial to believe that emotions are good, useful experiences, and not necessarily harmful, damaging experiences; it's also beneficial to believe that emotions are controllable." But probably not rigidly so, she warns. "If you think that emotions are completely controllable all the time, imagine how stressful that must be in moments where you aren't able to reign in your emotions."

Here is Dr. Ford on why beliefs about our emotions matter.
What is one of the most surprising insights you have gained from your research on emotions?
I find it surprising that the pathway to well-being has much more nuance than people might think. For example, there are contexts in which anger is the healthiest option and contexts where wanting to feel happy might backfire. Much depends on the context in which we are feeling the emotion.
Why do our beliefs about our emotions matter?
What you believe about the world shapes how you perceive and interact with the world. So, what you believe about emotions should shape how you approach and manage your emotions. For example, if you think that emotions are bad, what's going to happen when you're feeling upset? Or if you think that emotions are uncontrollable, what's going to happen when you need to manage those emotions? Our beliefs (otherwise known as "theories" or "mindsets") have a pervasive influence on us, even if we don't think about them in our day-to-day lives. They guide what we want to feel and the strategies we use to regulate our emotions.
Where do our beliefs come from?
Sometimes these beliefs come from the outside-people often tell us how we should be feeling, like our parents telling us, "Don't cry" or "Be happy." When we observe others, we may see them struggling with their emotions or judging their emotions. On the other hand, beliefs can also come from our own experiences. If I had a hard time managing my own emotions, I might come to the larger conclusion that emotions are relatively uncontrollable. Or if I often have distressing emotions, I might develop a general belief that emotions are particularly bad.
How do our beliefs about our emotions affect our psychological well-being?
In order for these abstract beliefs to shape people's health and well-being, some process needs to unfold. One of the most plausible pathways is through emotion regulation (i.e., the strategies we use to change which emotions we have and when we have them). For example, if I tend to think that emotions are relatively uncontrollable, then I may be less likely to try to regulate them in my daily life. Another process is meta-emotion: feeling emotions about our emotions. For example, if I think that emotions are bad or harmful, then when I feel anxious, I might feel bad that I'm feeling anxious, which will make me feel even worse.
How much of our emotions are really within our control?
It depends on what you mean by "emotion" and what you mean by "control" (and what you mean by "really"). Emotions are multi-faceted experiences. We have internal subjective experiences, facial expressions, physiological reactions. Some of these facets may be easier to control than others. For example, masking the outward display of emotion might be easier in some contexts than changing how you feel or your physiology. It might also depend on the intensity of the emotion as well, where more intense emotions are harder to control than less intense emotions. Ironically, it may be helpful to not try to control our emotions. If we just accept our emotional experiences and let them run their natural course, they can end more quickly. This is why emotional acceptance can be a particularly powerful strategy of emotion regulation-it can help you feel better, partly because you don't perpetuate your negative emotions. The goal shouldn't be to get rid of or stifle all emotions. It's to try to have them to the right degree and in the right context and to recover more quickly afterward.
Can we change our beliefs?
Evidence from therapeutic interventions tells us it's possible. For example, cognitive behavioral therapy can help people with social anxiety disorder reduce their anxiety by helping them believe that their anxiety is more controllable. One of the goals of mental health practitioners is to help their clients change their maladaptive beliefs. Importantly, changing beliefs is just a first step-it's crucial to also give people the tools they need to regulate their emotions. Convincing someone they can control their emotions may not have much of a beneficial effect if the person does not also have the tools they need to actually control their emotions. A useful intervention should probably involve both-changing beliefs and acquiring skills to use effective forms of emotion regulation.
How does culture influence our beliefs?
In part, our beliefs come from our culture. Certain emotions are more highly valued in some cultures than others. If we live in a culture that believes a particular emotion is valuable, we should be more likely to value that emotion-and more likely to try to feel that emotion.
How can your research findings help improve lives?
The beliefs that we hold change how we manage our day-to-day experiences. If we can even modestly shift our beliefs, we might be able to change how we approach the daily emotional experiences that accumulate and become our overall sense of well-being. For example, if I tend to believe that negative emotions are bad, then whenever I get stressed at work or have conflict with my partner, those experiences are probably going to feel more distressing. If I can shift towards a more magnanimous belief about emotions-trying to view my emotions with curiosity instead of judgment-these day-to-day experiences can become less distressing. Over time, even small changes can accumulate and end up moving mountains.
What "trick" would you suggest to our adolescent emotional theorists in helping them manage their emotions?
When you are having an intense experience, try to sit with the emotion and observe it. Acknowledge it. Don't try to get rid of it right away or judge it as good or bad. Take a few deep breaths. Feel it. Maybe describe it, try to understand where it comes from ("I think I'm feeling upset, or out of control"). Try de-centering by taking the identity from "I am so angry!" to "Here is a moment of anger." If you can bring down the intensity of your emotion, it'll become more feasible to rethink the situation and gain a new perspective. As long as you are not ruminating or stewing over it, the emotion will eventually go away on its own. These are things I try to do myself but, of course, it's always a challenge.
Many thanks to Brett Ford for her time and insights. Dr. Ford is the director of the Affective Science & Health Laboratory at the University of Toronto.

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I recently asked my 12-year-old son if he believed that emotions, in general, are controllable. He gave me a reluctant yes, before assuring me that it was the hardest thing to do in the world. What if there was a trick, I persisted, that would make it easy to control emotions?

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This article shows us how to regulate emotion, so that we don't show too much or too little emotion.

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While there are many ways to influence one's emotional state for the better, emotion regulation often involves what experts call "down-regulation," or reducing the intensity of emotions. A grieving person might down-regulate his sadness by recalling something amusing. An anxious person may cope by distracting herself from the thought that is causing her anxiety. Emotion regulation can also include "up-regulation," or amping up one's emotions, which can be useful when an imminent danger or challenge calls for a healthy dose of anxiety or excitement.

The process model of emotion regulation proposed by psychologist James Gross emphasizes that people can act to control their emotions at different points in time-including before they feel an emotion ("antecedent-focused emotion regulation") and after they have already begun to react emotionally ("response-focused emotion regulation").

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Emotion regulation is the ability to exert control over one's own emotional state. It may involve behaviors such as rethinking a challenging situation to reduce anger or anxiety, hiding visible signs of sadness or fear, or focusing on reasons to feel happy or calm.

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This website contains a summary for the characteristics of emotions in both genders. This helps confirm the stereo-types of men and women because it shows the advantage of men in certain emotions.

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Gender specific stereotypes persist in recent Gallup poll
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans have little difficulty associating specific personality characteristics with one gender or the other -- despite the existence of at least some social pressures in today's society to view men and women equally. The poll gave Americans the opportunity to associate particular characteristics with either men or women, and the results show that even today Americans are likely to say that the words "emotional," "affectionate," "talkative," "patient" and "creative" describe women, while associating characteristics such as "aggressive" and "courageous" with men. Neither sex is most likely to be described by the terms "intelligent," "easy-going," and "ambitious."

Here is the basic summary of the results based on responses to the following question: I would like to ask about some specific characteristics of men and women. For each one I read, please tell me whether you think it is generally more true of men or more true of women.

The respondents were then read a list of 10 characteristics, with the following results:
SUMMARY OF CHARACTERISTICS OF MEN AND WOMEN Characteristics strongly associated with women
Emotional +87% (gap in favor of women over men)

Affectionate +81%

Talkative +68%

Patient +53%

Creative +50%
Characteristics associated with men
Aggressive +48% (gap in favor of men over women)

Courageous +23%
Characteristics that are not strongly associated with either gender
Intelligent (tilts towards women, but with only a 15% gap)

Ambitious (tilts towards men, with a 11% gap)

Easy-going (slight tilt towards men, with a 7% gap)

One of the most interesting findings is the degree to which the public is willing to or able to ascribe the characteristics to a specific gender, rather than claiming that the term describes both equally. Those who volunteered that there was no difference between the genders were in the minority in all cases, and for only one adjective -- "intelligent" -- did more than a quarter of Americans volunteer that the dimension described both genders equally. (The question did not give the respondent a specific choice that encompassed the "no difference" alternative.)

Out of the 10 dimensions tested, on only three (ambitious, easy-going and intelligent) was the gap between the percentage choosing men and the percentage choosing women less than 20% points. On all others, there appeared to be a high degree of consensus that the personality trait described one of the sexes particularly well.

How Do Men and Women Differ in Their Views of the Genders and These Characteristics?
Women are somewhat more likely than men to say that the traits apply to their gender, and in fact say that only one trait - aggressive - is more applicable to men than women. . Men, on the other hand, are somewhat more likely to ascribe the traits to women, believing that five of those tested are more applicable to women than to their own gender.

Intelligence is the characteristic that both men and women are most likely to say applies equally to the two genders (40% of both genders say "intelligent" applies equally to men and women). There are significant differences, however, among those who do make a choice. Women tend to ascribe intelligence to women (more than to men), while men split evenly in ascribing the trait to the two genders. In a Gallup poll conducted in 1946, 40% of Americans said that men were more intelligent than women (compared to just 21% today), 21% said that women were more intelligent and 36% thought the sexes were equally intelligent.

Men are much more likely than are women to think of themselves as the more courageous sex -- 59% of men think they are more courageous than women, while only 16% say that women are more courageous. On the other hand, women are much more even-handed: 41% of women say that men have more courage while 37% say that the term "courageous" applies best to women. In 1950 Gallup asked Americans whether they thought men or women were more courageous. Interestingly, 35% of the public said men, 33% said women and 22% said the sexes were equally courageous. It is noteworthy that, 50 years later, the number of people who think men are more courageous than women has increased rather than decreased.

We observe a similar pattern with the characteristic "ambitious." A slight majority of men -- 52% -- think that they are the more ambitious group, while 28% choose women. Among women, there is a tie -- 37% of women say that the term fits women, and 37% of women say that the term fits men.

There are six dimensions on which a majority of both men and women agree, but the characteristic "aggressive" is the only trait that both genders agree applies more to men than women. A majority of both men and women say that women are more emotional, talkative, patient, affectionate, and creative.

Another way of looking at these patterns:

Agree that only one dimension on the list applies more to men than to women: aggressive

Believe that six of the dimensions apply more to women than men: emotional, talkative, creative, patient, affectionate, intelligent

Say that the two genders are equally courageous, ambitious, easy-going

Men

Believe that four dimensions apply more to men than to women: aggressive, courageous, and ambitious and easy-going

Agree that five of the dimensions apply more to women than men: emotional, talkative, patient, creative, and affectionate

Think that the two genders are equal on only one dimension: intelligent

Historical Trends
Gallup last asked this series in 1995. Those findings differed only slightly from the current ones in that more people volunteered that men and women were equally courageous, creative, ambitious, easy-going and affectionate.

Age Differences
Apparently, life experience leads people to have less strongly held gender stereotypes. Older Americans are generally more likely than younger ones to view the sexes as equal on most of these characteristics. Older people see fewer differences between the sexes in the categories of aggressive, emotional, talkative, patient and affectionate. On the other dimensions, intelligent, courageous, ambitious, easy-going, there is little systematic difference of opinion by age group. This finding is consistent with other gender-related survey data. Older people, for example, are also less likely to have a gender preference when they are asked whether they would rather have a boy or a girl.
Survey Methods
The results below are based on telephone interviews with a randomly selected national sample of 1,026 adults, 18 years and older, conducted December 2-4, 2000, For results based on this sample, one can say with 95 percent confidence that the maximum error attributable to sampling and other random effects is plus or minus 3 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
MEN ONLY WOMEN ONLY AGE GROUPS
(% saying "women"-% saying "men" only)
I would like to ask about some specific characteristics of men and women. For each one I read, please tell me whether you think it is generally more true of men or more true of women. First,[ROTATED]? A. Aggressive B. Emotional
C. Talkative
D. Intelligent E. Courageous F. Patient G. Creative H. Ambitious I. Easy-going J. Affectionate

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Americans See Women as Emotional and Affectionate, Men As More Aggressive

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A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans have little difficulty associating specific personality characteristics with one gender or the other despite the existence of at least some social pressures in today's society to view men and women equally.

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The Benefits of Expressing Your Emotions.

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The Benefits of Expressing Your Emotions.

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This article tells us the benefits of showing our emotions, such as reduced pain and stress.

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When we hear the question, "How are you?" our instinctive response is, "I'm fine" - in spite of the fact that we may not be fine at all. Our society's custom and practice is to mask how we're really feeling and respond with the standard, glib answer.

But what if you went against expectations and expressed what you were really feeling? What if you were forthright about your emotions and didn't hide them? Well, people would be surprised. But we all know that being honest and authentic about how we feel creates powerful personal connections.

As a matter of fact, showing your vulnerability is one of the surest ways to establish deeper, more intimate relationships. Never think that exhibiting vulnerability shows weakness. It takes strength and fortitude to do it and the payoff in terms of better, instant rapport and deeper relationships is definitely there.

So, the next time you're asked, "How are you?" think twice before you mindlessly respond, "I'm fine." Instead, think about revealing part of your interior by expressing how you really feel. After all, honesty is the best policy. The challenge isn't in expressing your positive emotions and the positive feelings associated with them. It's in your negative emotions and the resulting negative feelings, which require more in-depth thought and practice. Expressing these emotions will create a respectful emotional awareness on both sides. You will demonstrate that you are aware of your emotions and have the courage to be genuine in voicing them.

Strong emotions have a lasting tail. Especially when an emotion is negative, once an outside stimuli or event acts as a trigger, the event and its presence in your conscious and unconscious mind is sometimes with you forever. However, by being fully aware of the process by which this happens, you can finally address those old issues and minimize their lasting effect. You do this by creating a new reality for yourself, readjusting your limiting beliefs and taking action from a place of positive feelings, not negative ones.

So where can you start?

After identifying your feelings and understanding which emotion initiated those feelings, you can use "traffic lights" in order to be less reactive and more proactive. It works like this:

1. Red light: Identify any current negative feeling that you are experiencing in a specific situation.

2. Yellow light: Identify the specific event that provoked that feeling, and dissolve the negative feeling by:

* Naming the main judgmental thought that created this feeling and labeling it.

* Coming up with a few alternative neutral and positive meanings for your main judgmental thought. By doing this, you will assign new, reframed meanings to the event.

* Choosing the most attractive alternative meaning you came up with in the step above.

* Labeling the alternative positive feeling that has been consciously chosen in the step above.

3. Green light: Feel the alternative, positive feeling in your body.

Doing this exercise will allow you to express yourself positively by communicating responsibly and taking proactive actions that will make you proud of who you are becoming, increasing your optimism and enhancing your interpersonal relationships.

There are three main pillars of self-expression, each of which is important in allowing you to authentically express yourself. They are:

* Emotional self-expression

* Assertiveness

* Independence

Emotional self-expression involves expressing your feelings verbally and non-verbally.

It is important to be authentic and express your feelings constructively. Doing this builds fulfilling communications. Openly sharing your thoughts and feelings goes a long way toward building relationships based on trust and respect. Our total means of communication are said to be comprised of three different components:

1. Body language: 55%

2. Tone of voice: 38%

3. Words: 7%

Based on these percentages, it's easy to see that by not being aware of them, you can have unintended impacts on others and neglect to fulfill your communication goals.

As pointed out by Pearl S. Buck, "Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment." If you express your feelings incongruently, (e.g., your body language, tone of voice and words don't all match), you will come across as an inauthentic individual. This incongruent behavior will impact both trust and respect in your relationships.
Assertiveness is a direct consequence of confidence.
In its highest form, assertiveness represents your ability to communicate with others in a respectful manner by genuinely expressing your specific feelings and thoughts, and naming your beliefs and rights, all without being aggressive or abusive.

Assertiveness starts with:

1. Clearly recognizing the kind of feeling you are experiencing.

2. Directly expressing those feelings constructively and respectfully by being aware of all three communication components.

3. Standing firm for your beliefs and rights.

4. Empathetically understanding opposite points of view.

Assertiveness helps you express feelings, beliefs and thoughts in a positive, non-destructive way. It's the middle ground between passive and aggressive. As you practice finding the middle ground, you uncover compromises that create a win-win. Of course, it takes courage to express your real points of view instead of complaining to yourself and sounding like a looping tape of practiced responses and ill-thought-out answers.
Independence is the ability to live and act free from undue control, influence, support or the like.
Independence is grounded in self-confidence and your intuition. Being self-directed and self-controlled in your thinking and actions allows you to be free of emotional dependency. It allows you to be decisive and take risks by tapping into your intuition and self-confidence.

Remember the words of Abraham Lincoln: "It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong." When you practice independence, you let go of your fear of failure and focus on trusting and believing in yourself.

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The Benefits Of Expressing Your Emotions

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When we hear the question, "How are you?" our instinctive response is, "I'm fine" - in spite of the fact that we may not be fine at all. Our society's custom and practice is to mask how we're really feeling and respond with the standard, glib answer.

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This article from Psychology Today tells us about how emotions are a part of our lives, and how we use those emotions is usually how we live.

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Emotions guide our lives in a million ways. Whether we're inclined to hide and avoid or ponder and express them, most of us don't realize the extent to which they are driving our thoughts and behavior. Exploring our emotions is a worthy endeavor for anyone hoping to know and develop themselves, build healthy relationships, and pursue what they want in life. Recent research has even suggested that emotional intelligence is more important than IQ, showing that it "predicts over 54% of the variation in success" in relationships, health, and quality of life.

Our emotions can offer us clues into who we are as well as how we've been affected by our history. Many of our actions are initiated by emotion, which leads to the natural question of what emotions are being surfaced and why. Which of these emotions are adaptive and maladaptive? Which may be triggered by the present but rooted in our past? Recently, I had the privilege of developing an ecourse, " The Power of Emotion," with Dr. Les Greenberg, the primary originator of Emotion-Focused Therapy. Dr. Greenberg suggests we "need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them." Much of that harmony comes from understanding our emotional reactions and distinguishing when our emotions are primary or secondary in nature as well as when they are adaptive or not.

Primary emotions are our first emotional reaction. They're often followed by a more defended secondary emotion. Sometimes, we are only consciously aware of the secondary emotion: the anger that covers up feeling hurt, the embarrassment overpowering our sadness, or the anxiety masking a deeper fear. For example, if our partner doesn't show up for us or lets us down in some way, we may feel righteous and enraged. We may stonewall or erupt in our next interaction with him or her. However, if we look at our initial reaction, our primary emotion, we may recognize that we had more vulnerable feelings, such as feeling hurt, unwanted, or ashamed. These primary feelings give us a glimpse into our needs. When we allow ourselves to get in touch with them, we can then express them to our partner, and we are more likely to generate a very different reaction because we are allowing him or her to feel for us.

Primary emotion "is not the stale resentment followed by resignation at remembering being overlooked for a promotion 2 years ago; neither is it the sense of complaint that comes from unresolved hurt," wrote Greenberg in his book Emotion-Focused Therapy. "Instead, it is a vital feeling that often leaves the [person] feeling very open and perhaps vulnerable." Greenberg further described primary emotions as "less rapid and less action-oriented" than secondary emotions. They are "poignant and full" and "more likely to slowly wash over a person."

If we imagine a moment of feeling tense, frustrated or stuck in a bad feeling, driven to react without a sense of relief, we were probably caught in a secondary emotion. However, if we were able to access the deeper, more vulnerable feeling, perhaps a want or a need, or a core feeling of sadness or shame, we were then experiencing a primary emotion. Initially, we may have noticed the feeling building, but then easing like a wave. When we allow ourselves to feel a primary emotion, we often experience relief. We aren't necessarily inclined to act. Instead, we feel more in touch with ourselves, softened yet more alive.

Primary emotions can be either adaptive reactions to the moment or maladaptive reactions based on schemas from our past. Maladaptive primary emotions may be sparked by current events, but they're tied to a way we felt early in our lives. For example, if we were seen or treated like we were unintelligent or incapable in our family, being called "stupid" or related to as if we're incompetent in the current day can trigger us to feel deeply pained or ashamed. However, before we can acknowledge this pain or shame, we're swept up in a secondary emotion like anger, resentment, or defensiveness.

According to Dr. Greenberg, we can identify the thoughts that generate our maladaptive emotional reactions. We may experience what I often refer to as a " critical inner voice," a negative internal commentary that tells us things like, "You made such a fool of yourself. Look at how they're looking at you. They all think you're an idiot. You should just get out of here." This destructive inner coach often gets louder when we feel triggered emotionally. These critical thoughts can drive us to feel a range of emotions that are painful and maladaptive, which contribute to self-defeating behavior, like holding ourselves back, turning to psychological defenses, or pushing away loved ones. The maladaptive secondary emotions can also lead us to react in ways that are not in our best interest: lashing out to defend ourselves, acting resentful or enraged, driven by thoughts like "How dare they treat you that way. That was so disrespectful. Who do they think they are to talk to you like that?"

Our maladaptive emotions are based on past schemas. Although, they are not an accurate reflection of who we really are, when we fail to identify these emotions, we may feel stuck living in their shadows. The ironic comfort of their familiarity can even cause us to distort ourselves and others or provoke reactions and scenarios that recreate the emotional climate to which we're accustomed. We may relate to others based on these old feelings rather than what's really going on or what we really want.

The good news is we can transform our emotions to become adaptive. Maladaptive emotions often leave us feeling stuck, as if they're unresolvable, but if we can get to the underlying emotion from an old schema, we can feel the feelings, gain insight into the need underlying the emotion, and take actions to get the need met. We can do this by asking a partner or someone close to us to meet our need or, if necessary, by soothing ourselves. We can take our side by challenging our critical self-attacks and, thereby, offering ourselves compassion and love. We can be more willing to feel our sadness, anger, or the deeper primary emotions that make us feel more connected to ourselves. We can feel our feelings rather than suppressing them and allowing them to silently dictate our lives.

When we live in harmony with our emotions, we become more in touch with who we are. We gain insight into the real core emotions that are causing our reactions, and we can be the one at the wheel, choosing our actions. Feeling is an adaptive mechanism to give us critical information. By focusing on emotion with compassion and curiosity, we can discover who we are and what we want. As Dr. Greenberg put it, "People can find the gem of their adaptive, essential self."

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Emotions guide our lives in a million ways. Whether we're inclined to hide and avoid or ponder and express them, most of us don't realize the extent to which they are driving our thoughts and behavior. Exploring our emotions is a worthy endeavor for anyone hoping to know and develop themselves, build healthy relationships, and pursue what they want in life.

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This source was the most factual in helping me understand the physical difference in their brains. This allowed me to understand why men are better at handling fear, while women are better at problem solving and remembering.

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I found this infographic online after many hours searching for a perfect image to put my research into a concise photo. This has all the physical differences in the male and female brains, and those differences give a certain gender a higher risk of health issues. Al of this information was in my research and they also say that those health issues can sometimes be caused by the parameters of society.

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Kids opinions on the stereo-types of emotions in both men and women

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Kids opinions on the stereo-types of emotions in both men and women

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This video shows how the impact of the media is being taught at a young age of men shouldn't cry and women are told to keep their cool. These kids have been exposed to the harsh and unfair stereotypes of this generation.

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A combination of both our Bibliographies