This free online course explores the science of emotions and provides proven techniques for managing emotions.

This course covers emotions in depth and provides some techniques to help with managing them. We begin by defining ‘emotions’, providing some scientific explanations for them and identifying some of their functions. The course then proceeds to explain some existing theories of emotions like the James-Lange, Cannon-Bard and Facial Feedback theories. The first half of the course concludes by introducing some ideas on emotions based on cognition, such as the Schachter-Singer and Cognitive Appraisal Theory.

The second half of the course covers some emotion classifications and techniques for managing emotions. It begins with categories from Paul Ekman, Robert Plutchik and Gerrod Parrott. This section teaches what emotions tell us, how to identify the source of unpleasant feelings and how to deal with them. Finally, the course concludes by introducing practices like the ‘Accepts’ and ‘Dearman’ techniques, which have proven effective in managing emotions.

This course will help you improve your understanding of emotions and provide you with essential management techniques. The content would be helpful to anyone from psychology students to therapists or anyone looking to better understand their own emotions or those of others. Start this course now, master your own emotions and learn to manage them in three hours or less.