Part A

1. The patterns Ive noticed over the days of observation are that essentially my mood in the morning during the 7-8:00AM slot is very dreary, gloomy, annoyed, and negative. As my body wakes up, it usually feels very negative as my phone has the most irritating alarm and annoys me. Another contributor to my mood is lack of energy from my constant nights of insomnia; I generally sleep from two to four hours. Another pattern I noticed is that around 11AM my mood and energy level would elevate and stay around a 3.5-4. This rating of mood and energy level means I am usually somewhat happy, glad to be out of class, and ready for lunch time. This is probably because I am an introvert; I get to recharge having lunch by myself and reflect on my class material. The final pattern that I noticed is during the mid-afternoons, I am usually the happiest; this often involves circumstances such as getting people to give donations for breast cancer, lounging around watching television, and just being lazy. During the mid- afternoon, I interact with other students when asking for donations. Even when students say, I am not interested in donating, I give them a big smile and thank them for their time. The conclusions I have drawn from my personal observations on my emotional patterns is that I am not a morning person, and after that period, my emotions are not very different throughout the rest of the day. My final conclusion is that my moods as well as my energy levels are usually consistent from day to day because every day around noon, and mid-afternoon I feel the same way consistently. My energy levels during that time period are often very similar to my mood and it correlates with how I feel. It is as if I feel happy when I have high energy and shows with things like me giggling, and if I have low energy I am sort of negative, like when I wake up.

2. The clues that were most relevant to me, revealing my own emotions were listening to my inner dialogue and watching my behaviour. My first indication I could track my emotions through my inner dialogue was the fact that when I reacted to waking up in the morning my first thoughts were grumpy, agonized, and negative. Then after the dialogue, I felt the emotions in my body tell me that I wasnt in a good mood and that it was grumpy as well as tired. The last way I recognized my emotions was watching my behaviours, and using them to infer my feelings. An illustration of this is that as was looking at my assignment in class on Tuesday, and reading the rules of it, I watched my self struggle with the answer, with eyes trying to trace anything that would make sense, and flustered as I looked around and people were finishing it. I indicated that I struggled with the assignment, and it made me feel inadequate to my peers, and blank minded. This made me feel a little angry because of the frustration I had felt. The most important clues can differ from emotions are that when you watch your behaviour your logically thinking the emotion through, and then reacting to them. An example of how clues can differ from emotions is if I bumped into someone accidently my prime reaction would be to apologize and that would be my predicted behaviour and the emotion would be apologetic. However this is predictable everyday behaviour; to bump into someone then apologize to them doesnt necessarily involve apologetic emotions, it could be your just being polite and just saying sorry without feeling that emotion.

Part B
1. It was difficult to watch the emotional clues for the person I was observing because I live with this person, and I did not care much to watch her too careful to react perfectly to her

emotion in a general every day sense but these past few days it was straining. I found it very difficult as when you watch for someone elses emotional clues every little tense strain on their forehead, frown on their face, and slight actions that has to be watched very carefully is a sign of changing emotions or logically thought towards their behaviour to make a effective or less effective emotional response. In some cases I could not really define her emotion; I looked at the circumstances of the situation and interpreted a logical response to what I thought the person felt, perhaps not how she was really feeling. A hypothesis in a sense, of someone elses emotions, to watch and be able to truly interpret how they really are feeling without having your own emotions or biases mixed in, to have a good hypothesis in my opinion, is complicated as its not just one emotion they emit at once but several. In my log I choose the emotions that I observed that were the strongest and most relevant to the circumstances as well as the most obvious. Therefore, watching a persons emotions is the same as giving a logical hypothesis that could be right some of the time but wrong the other half of the time. The difficulty is that the clues could be completely false, much like a person who is good at acting or lives on impulse. Another conclusion to my extreme aggravation on understanding someone elses emotional clues is if you know that person you tend to miss the bigger picture, or completely ignore their every day little quirks that signal emotional patterns. At the end of this field watching for emotional behaviour you discover you never pay enough attention to them to truly understand them or ever noticed that your influence to their behaviour works both ways; it just leads to more questions of how we understand each others emotions. This leaves the watcher wondering if people are that hard to understand even with sufficient clues,

the answer is, were wrong about that persons emotions almost half the time, and blinded by what the person wants to emit to us of what their feeling.

2. The data I used to infer the persons emotions were their eyes, tone of voice, how they moved, facial expressions, reaction timing, and body aspects, like folded arms. The way I used eyes to infer emotions was how they looked at me with the addition of facial expression as well as tone of voice. For example, if the person was angry they would have fury in their eyes, loud tone of voice with scrunched face and arms to their sides or crossed standing firmly looking down at me. The clues such as folded arms, head looking down, eyes unattached to book, fancy clothing, smiling, frowning, and tense body gestures were not all accurate means of portraying that persons emotion state. It was different because when I went to have a conversation with the subject I discovered that they wanted to portray those emotions, that they wanted to make me think they feel that way to either be left alone, or get attention. However, the clues also led me to believe that some aspects I thought they were emoting were true such as being happy. With

happiness there is always a smile, pleasant voice tone, bright eyes, and relaxed arms with fluent movement. When the subject emoted feeling distracted, the truth was they actually werent as I discovered later on that when I asked about the phone call they said that the customer service representative was actually making them annoyed and angry as they didnt understand her circumstances or what she really wanted. I thought she was distracted on the phone but she was focused, confused, and a little upset.

3. I had instances such as when the subject emoted anger towards me but two minutes later she showed me that she was actually worried; that was how she showed she cared, by getting upset at me. I figured out this mixed up emotional signal by actually listening to the conversation, that it had compassion as well as empathy, that this was not a lecture and that she wanted the best for me. Another instance was when the subject illustrated moodiness towards me even with positive conversation but a few seconds later, her eyes were weary, she had an elongated facial expression as if she was not happy at all. I figured out the true emotion after writing it in my log, then thinking about the situation and circumstances, as I remembered that she told me she was over tired. Also, as a person who knows the subject when she is over tired she is cranky but will glow with moodiness as she seems to have a split personality when she is over tired she does not even answer to her name some times. The last example of mixed clues was when she was focused I thought she just wanted to look like she was busy as she kept writing her study notes, and read her text at the same time. I discovered the truth of her real emotions with mixed clues, (multi tasking to me usually means I want to look busy and focused but I am not) by asking her what she was doing. The subject answered that she was doing her homework it was due tonight, and she was afraid to go to class if she didnt do it. The subject also said that this was practice for her GED, that this to her was part of her goal.