Match the feeling to the thought
A man arranges to meet someone on a date. It is 10 minutes after the time agreed and his date still hasn’t shown up. Look at the examples below and try to identify the emotional responses on the right that are most likely to accompany three contrasting interpretations of the same event.
These contrasting thoughts all carry a very different emotional tone. The first way of thinking is likely to leave the thinker feeling sad and forlorn and is typical of the thinking of a depressed person; while the second train of thought is more agitated, generating feelings of hostility and anxiety. It is pretty obvious that the ...
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