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• Anger • Anxiety • Joy, happiness • Fear • Hate • Grief • Care • Love
General Effects of Emotions
• Interfere with your ability to think • Create mental distractions
• Create inattentiveness • Can cause you to act out your emotions
• Increase risk taking • Create a lack of concentration
• Interrupt your ability to process information
Physical Effects of Emotions
• Heartbeat increases • Breathing quickens
• Digesting slows • Palms sweat • Feeling of exhaustion • Physical stress
Controlling emotions
• Understand one’s emotional makeup • Identify situations that cause emotional stress
• Expect other drivers to make mistakes • Understand that emotions are contagious
• Direct emotions toward actions, not individuals • Delay driving when upset
• If upset, ask someone else to drive
