emotional conversation

What kind of bodily reactions do you experience when you are expressing high emotion? How can people tell you are angry, nervous, and so on? Watch these two clips from the Discovery/TLC program American Chopper. Notice how the father and son react to high emotion.

• American Chopper Fight
  
  

  Search American Chopper Fight, Discovery Channel

• American Chopper: I Robot Bike Argument 2
  
  

  Search AmericanCh0PPer:I Robot Bike Argument 2

Describe a scene that you remember where you expressed yourself emotionally through physical actions. Comment on whether these actions enhanced the communication or got in the way.

Realizing how high emotion affects all of us on a daily basis, how would you react if you were working in the same environment as the people in the clips?