Meta-emotions as sources of many emotional dysfunctions,
but also a locus of emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, and creative transformation

(Meta-)Emotional window - a motivational equivalent of Johari window

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Below are shown basic emotions horizontally, cross-tabbed vertically by meta-emotions as sources of many emotional dysfunctions, but also a locus of emotional awareness, emotional intelligence, and creative transformation in the first column of the table.  

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Question No1:
 
Why parental emotions about child's spontaneous emotions get internalized as meta-emotions, at all? 

 

It seems there is a sub-level at the emotional level that allows for their internalization. Why has this emotional sub-level evolved in the course of human evolution is interesting question. Probably members of species that evolved it  had better survival rates.

 
 

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