Perception, Appraisal and Expression of Emotions

a) ability to identify emotion in one's physical states, feelings, and thoughts

b) ability to identify emotions in other people, designs, artwork, etc. through language, sound appearance, and behavior

c) ability to express emotions accurately, and to express needs related to those feelings

d) ability to discriminate between accurate and inaccurate, or honest versus dishonest expressions of feeling.

Emotional Facilitation of Thinking

a) Emotions prioritize thinking by directing attention to important information

b) Emotions are sufficiently vivid and available that they can be generated as aids to judgement and memory concerning feelings.

c) Emotional mood swings change the individual's perspective from optimistic to pessimistic, encouraging consideration of multiple points of view.

d) Emotional states differentially encourage specific problem approaches such as when happiness facilitates inductive reasoning and creativity.

Understanding and Analyzing Emotions; Employing Emotional Knowledge

a) ability to label emotions and recognize relations among the words and the emotions themselves, such as the relation between liking and loving.

b) Ability to interpret the meanings that emotions convey regarding relationships, such as that sadness often accompanies a loss.

c) Ability to understand complex feelings; simultaneous feelings of love and hate, or blends such as awe as a combination of fear and surprise.

d) Ability to recognize likely transitions among emotions, such s the transition from anger to satisfaction, or from anger to shame.

Reflective Regulation of Emotions to Promote Emotional and Intellectual Growth

a) Ability to stay open to feelings, both those that are pleasant and those that are unpleasant

b) Ability to reflectively engage or detach from an emotion depending upon its judged informativeness or utility.

c) Ability to reflectively monitor emotions in relation to oneself and others, such as recognizing how clear, typical, influential, or reasonable they are.

d) Ability to manage emotion in oneself and others by moderating negative emotions and enhancing pleasant ones, without repressing or exaggerating information they may convey.