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Emotions and emotional disorders Creative commons Icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...emotional disorder (or common mental disorder; McManus et al., 2009). Of these, depression and anxiety (or a mix of the two, called ‘mixed anxiety and depression’ or MAD) were by far the most common, as Figure 1 shows. Note that the term prevalence is a scientific term that refers to the number of people experiencing a disorder or illness at a particular time....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Money and Emotions
Money & Business

Money and Emotions

...emotions affect financial decisions? Is their impact always bad, or are emotions an important part of making good financial decisions? Can a better understanding of emotion help us avert future financial crises? These are some of the questions being asked by the xDelia project: a European Commission funded research programme being conducted by The Open University and...
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Emotion management for translators Copyrighted Icon
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Emotion management for translators

...emotion management. The training is designed for translators working as employees in organisations who need to employ specific emotional skills in their working context...Emotion management for translators is an 18-hour training package designed to enhance specific emotional competences in participants, such as understanding and identifying emotions, listening to and...
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Article 5 mins
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History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...emotion? This free course, Emotion: an introductory picture, takes a philosophical approach to this question in an attempt to understand why people respond to events in a certain way. Is there a difference between an emotion and a bodily feeling or is one a consequence of the other?...What is emotion? This free course, Emotion: an introductory picture, takes a...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Emotional intelligence for translators

...emotional intelligence for translators at all stages of their careers who wish to learn more about maintaining their psychological health...Emotional intelligence for translators is a continuing professional development (CPD) course developed in response to the growing demand for soft skills training from employers, translators, and professional translation associations....
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Article 5 mins
‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability Creative commons Icon
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...et. al. (2012), which show that emotions generated by appraisal mechanisms that aren’t cognitively penetrated are more resistant to cognitive influence than those that are. Emotional recalcitrance and cognitive psychology Much of this is spadework. But by tying in the notion of emotional recalcitrance with that of cognitive impenetrability, what we gain is the ability...
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Article 5 mins
Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance Copyrighted Icon
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...emotional learning. This article explores 'Dancemotion', a collaborative project led by The Open University...Since March, children in the UK (and elsewhere) have been dealing with a range of often strong emotions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether a child is now being taught in school (as some are) or as ‘distance-learners’ based at home, dance has something...
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Article 15 mins
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace Copyrighted Icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...emotional distress when faced with stressful situations (Gohm et al., 2005) preserves higher self-esteem and self-efficacy (belief in ability to control our own behaviour, emotions, and motivations), reducing influence of negative events and strengthening influence of positive events (Salguero et al., 2015) builds and supports close relationships, increasing availability...
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Article 10 mins