Today we are going to talk about how to increase congruence in your body language display and the message you want to send. I will cover 3 of the most often used emotions on a daily basis so that you can see how to work with these on your own. Now there are 8 basic emotions per Robert Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theory and they are:
- Fear
- Anger
- Sorrow/Sadness
- Joy
- Disgust
- Acceptance
- Anticipation
- Surprise
Robert Plutchik developed what is known as the Psychoevolutionary Theory of emotion and this has turned out to be one of the most influential classification systems for categorizing general emotional responses.
Knowing and understanding what each of these emotions “looks” like is an important fundamental component to your tool box. There are more emotions that you can work with as you will see below, but the 8 above are a bare necessity for using body language to effectively communicate. Today we are going to talk about three common messages conveyed through body language. Dissecting all of the 8 above will be left for another day.
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