{"id":1327,"date":"2014-11-21T06:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2014-11-21T06:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:33:54","slug":"1327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Managing Emotional Outbursts and Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever cried at work? \u00a0Have you shouted at a boss or co-worker? \u00a0Have you lost your cool? \u00a0It&#8217;s rare to find a person who wouldn&#8217;t like a redo on an emotional moment or period in his or her life. \u00a0And so, this week on Big Think, I posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/influence-power-politics\/emotional-outbursts-liability-or-tactic\">blog<\/a> that focuses on ways to deal with situations that elicit reactionary emotional responses.<\/p>\n<p>Research has long shown that even when managing emotions to the best of our abilities, facial expressions and body movement\/positions send messages about which we&#8217;re often unaware. \u00a0Gender and culture influence the types of expressions we exhibit readily as research by Paul Ekman and Ross Buck, among others, has demonstrated.<\/p>\n<p>For example, women tend to more readily smile and often do so when the discussion at hand requires a more serious expression in order to convey conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The blog linked here takes a look at some techniques that can prove helpful when attempting to train oneself to emote differently. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t about changing who you are or even how you think, but rather at least knowing when your spontaneous expressions may be getting in the way of your goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever cried at work? \u00a0Have you shouted at a boss or co-worker? \u00a0Have you lost your cool? \u00a0It&#8217;s rare to find a person who wouldn&#8217;t like a redo on an emotional moment or period in his or her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/?p=1327\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dust-ups","category-emotional-comebacks","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1cEol-1327","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comebacksatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}