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Subject: RE: [huml] Re: a random citation


Pondering....

Rex

At 1:11 PM -0500 9/4/03, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>I should always google first. ;-)
>
>http://eqi.org/index.htm
>http://eqi.org/emotions.htm
>
>That is a rather good site with information that could
>be used to build a secondary vocabulary theory on the
>emotion primary.  Anyone care to speculate on why expressing
>a secondary emotion is 'uniquely more human' and
>'tacitly seen as more human', 'provokes stronger intentions'
>and elicits 'nicer responses'?   How do the sign sets change
>for primary vs secondary emotions?  Is the definition the
>author of the site at the URL given above accepted or the
>basis for a useful vocabulary?
>
>"Primary and secondary emotions
>
>Some authors use the terms primary and secondary emotions. I find this
>distinction quite helpful. A primary emotion is what we feel first. The
>secondary emotion is what it leads to.
>
>Anger is a good example of a secondary emotion. As I discuss in my section
>on anger there are many possible primary emotions which, when they are
>intense enough, can lead to anger. We might feel insulted, pressured,
>cheated, etc. If these feelings are at a low level we are not likely to say
>we feel angry. But if they are intense, we commonly say we feel "angry."
>
>Depression is another example of a secondary emotion. Or we might call it a
>"catch-all" term. Depression can include feeling discouraged, hopeless,
>lonely, isolated, misunderstood, overwhelmed, attacked, invalidated,
>unsupported, etc. Normally it includes several feelings. These more specific
>feelings are what I would call primary emotions.
>
>Secondary, "catch-all" terms like anger and depression do not help us much
>when it comes to identifying our unmet emotional needs (UEN's). When all I
>can say is "I feel angry," neither I nor any one else knows what would help
>me feel better. But if I say I feel pressured or trapped or disrespected, it
>is much more clear what my UEN is and what would help me feel better. A
>simple, but effective technique, then, is to identify the primary emotion."
>
>len
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