Emotions, Attitudes and Behaviour 🔗

Introduction

Emotions are a daily, if not a moment-by-moment, occurrence. Emotions determine the quality of our lives. They occur in the everyday relationship we care about in the workplace, friendships, in dealings with family members and our most intimate relationship. They can save our lives, but they can also cause real damage. Above all, emotions are centred information that is integral to our well-being or, in the extreme, to our survival. Human attitude and behaviour are directly influenced by our emotions. This module enables us to understand the concept of emotion, the fundamentals of each type of emotion and at the same time how each of them influence human attitude and behaviour. This module covers different human emotions such as sadness and agony, anger, surprise and fear, disgust and contempt, self-conscious emotions and enjoyable emotions.