not allowing strong feelings to influence your decisions: He was rational and unemotional in his response.
: not emotional: such as. : not easily aroused or excited : cold. : involving a minimum of emotion : intellectual. an unemotional assessment.
apathetic. / (ˌæpəˈθɛtɪk) / adjective. having or showing little or no emotion; indifferent.
(ɪmoʊʃənləs ) adjective. If you describe someone as emotionless, you mean that they do not show any feelings or emotions.
Emotions occur in response to a stimulus or event. The emotional response consists of an appraisal process, during which individuals determine the personal significance of the stimulus or event (e.g., is it harmful or beneficial, does it affect personal goals).
In emotion-focused therapy, emotional responses can be classified into four general categories; adaptive, maladaptive, reactive, and instrumental.
Feeling emotionally numb commonly arises as an unconscious protective response to feeling difficult emotions, whether due to anxiety, stress or trauma. Experts regard it as a form of dissociation, a process that allows us to unconsciously protect ourselves from emotional pain.
Summary. Having low EI means that a person has difficulty recognizing and understanding their emotions and those of others. People with low EI may also have poor emotion regulation and find it difficult to use their emotions to attain personal goals.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow affect, glibness, manipulation and callousness.
Friendship.
Even close friendship can be difficult because, at a certain level, friendship requires vulnerability. Emotionally unavailable people find banter, or their shared history with someone, easier to cope with so they'll often keep a friendship at a slight distance.
Someone who's coldhearted is detached and unfeeling. It would be coldhearted to stand there, not caring, when you see a little kid fall and hurt herself. Most people are sympathetic and warm, but those who don't have much feeling for others are coldhearted.
Longer term, there's an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease, says Victoria. And avoiding emotions can also lead to problems with “memory, aggression, anxiety and depression”. A study from the University of Texas found that by not acknowledging our emotions we're making them stronger.
Sadness, moodiness, grief or depression. Vivid or distressing dreams. Guilt or "survivor guilt" Feeling overwhelmed, helpless or hopeless.
Emotional experiences have three components: a subjective experience, a physiological response and a behavioral or expressive response.
Facial expressions that give clues to a person's mood, including happiness, surprise, contempt, sadness, fear, disgust, and anger.
Emotional responses include but are not limited to facial expressions and neurophysiological activities. For example, people display a “smile” when exposed to positive stimuli and a “frown” when exposed to negative stimuli.
In 1980, Robert Plutchik diagrammed a wheel of eight emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger and anticipation, inspired by his Ten Postulates.
An emotionally unavailable man has a difficult time knowing how to engage in the real-stuff conversations. In some instances, he may have some capacity to listen, but is emotionally shutting that part of himself down so that you don't get too close. If that's the case, you will likely feel shut down and alone.
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is associated with an assortment of characteristics that undermine interpersonal functioning. A lack of empathy is often cited as the primary distinguishing feature of NPD.