Improving Emotional Intelligence in the Field

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Emotions are a vital dimension of the human experience. While they can be hard to describe at times, it is generally believed that there is a limited range of feelings that we can sense in our physical bodies, including anger, sadness, frustration, joy, surprise and fear. However, we do not experience them in the same way. Culture does shape emotions, as Liah Greenfield highlights: it guides how emotions and…