Your browser does not support the video tag. See if you can tell when a new emotion starts and how the faces transitions between emotions. Sudden shifts tend to be toward the center of the wheel, which can create tension.īelow are some videos where people change emotions. If you are not sure of the expressions, you are usually OK if you stay in the outside of the Emotion Color Wheel in your responses and pay attention to changes in the situation that could make someone shift emotion strongly. 'The emotion wheel is a psychological tool that helps individuals identify and verbalize their complex emotions,' therapist Genesis Espinoza, LMFT, explains. People don’t usually jump quickly across the wheel without reason. The purpose of the Color Wheel for Emotional Regulation is to provide a visual self-monitoring system to aid children in monitoring a specified emotion such as feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or angry. Then he might jump across the wheel to work around an angry circle of emotions. That is, if someone is happy, he will usually stay in a circle or emotions around happy) unless something happens in the situation, like someone insults him. It helps to understand that usually expressions stay within areas of the Emotion Color Wheel. At times faces change so fast that it is hard to figure out any one expression.
