Anti-Social Psychology: The Six Classes Of Emotions

For this individual assignment, I will be discussing my interest in one specific category of the six classes of emotions and how I have witnessed these emotions in my life. These anti-social, negative emotions are listed as anger, frustration, and aggression while the pro-social positive emotions are compassion, acceptance, and kindness. While I believe that all six of the emotional classes relate to my topic, I chose to do this class of emotions, anger/frustration/aggression --> compassion/acceptance/kindness and apply it to my life through witnessing divorce and what emotions or behaviors that children go through.

I chose to do this area because I took interest in learning how divorce effects children. I am primarily focused on this because

Individuals can experience this unpleasant feeling of anger when they feel they are being mistreated or that someone is attempting to harm them or another individual that they care about, or when they are faced with obstacles that hinder them from attaining their personal goals (What is Anger, 2017). If anger occurs from feeling threaten by others, a defense response will be released and displayed by “shutting down” or having a “I don’t care” point of view. Anger can also be projected from being deprived of the basic human needs (food, shelter, sex, and sleep), frustration, and stress. Physical changes will also occur through anger, like, increased heart rate, blood pressure, and levels of adrenaline (Ekman & Cordaro, 2011). Anger can be expressed in various ways by how people express it through their tone of voice, body language, and non-verbal cues. However, each person will experience anger differently because it varies widely on how often the person gets angry, how intense their anger is, and how long anger affects them. Although anger is often seen as a negative emotion, in some instances, angry emotions can be beneficial by increasing motivation to do better and fix the situation. Aside from the behavior anger prompts, anger is an emotional, physiological, and cognitive internal state that everyone experiences. Anger can ultimately result in aggression as well. In psychology, aggression refers to the behavior people have in causing harm or pain against another person. This is where a person physically attacks someone or a group of people with the intent to physically harm them. Aggression can also be verbal if a person attacks another person with insults, threats, mocking behavior or sarcasm,