Recognizing emotions influences both your behavior and how others respond to you.
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Recognizing emotions influences both your behavior and how others respond to you.
Success in your career is 85% about how you relate to people—and only 15% about how smart you are.
Kate Pljaskovova, “20 fascinating facts about emotions”, Dec 10, 2015
We often feel the echo of an emotion long after forgetting what sparked it.
Swaim, Emily. "Emotions Can Affect Your Memory--Here's Why and How to Handle It." Healthline. July 10, 2022
Emotions are energy in motion — they’re designed to move and transform once they’ve been acknowledged.
Miklos Hargitay, PsyD, “Why Emotions Matter: 5 Facts You May Not Know About Your Feelings”,
Manhattan Therapy Collective, February 22, 2023
Emotion is part of our experience, not the entirety of it.
Miklos Hargitay, PsyD, “Why Emotions Matter: 5 Facts You May Not Know About Your Feelings”,
Manhattan Therapy Collective, February 22, 2023
Fear arises when the instinct to flee collides with the impulse to understand.
Eckman, Paul. Emotions Revealed. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC., 2003
Emotionally flat people may come off as less attractive.
Eckman, Paul. Emotions Revealed. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC., 2003
People tend to recognize and interpret facial expressions more quickly in members of their own race compared to those of other races.
MacDonald, Matthew. Your Brain: The Missing Manual. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
It takes courage to face emotions honestly, especially the uncomfortable ones.
“Discover 10 Myths and Realities about Emotions, and How That Will Turbo Charge Your Emotional Intelligence And Change Your Life?”, DeployYourself.com, Jun 11, 2020
The earlier you recognize an emotion, the more choices you have in dealing with it.
Kate Pljaskovova, “20 fascinating facts about emotions”, Dec 10, 2015
When an emotion consumes us, it can narrow our perspective. Our thoughts, perceptions, and even memories become filtered through that emotional lens.
Miklos Hargitay, PsyD, “Why Emotions Matter: 5 Facts You May Not Know About Your Feelings”,
Manhattan Therapy Collective, February 22, 2023
Emotions act like signals, letting you know that something meaningful is happening within or around you.
Miklos Hargitay, PsyD, “Why Emotions Matter: 5 Facts You May Not Know About Your Feelings”,
Manhattan Therapy Collective, February 22, 2023
The human brain is wired to detect and respond more strongly to negative emotions, making them more contagious.
Eckman, Paul. Emotions Revealed. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, LLC., 2003
There is no difference between the amount of emotion experienced by men and women, but women show it more.
MacDonald, Matthew. Your Brain: The Missing Manual. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Feeling off doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means there’s something important inside you asking to be heard.
Unrecognized emotions don’t disappear; they resurface as behaviors we struggle to explain.