The ability of university teachers to recognize and regulate their emotional involvement

The topic of this article is to present the findings of a research into university teachers' skin conductivity changes due to emotions they experience while watching an emotional video. Using a questionnaire we evaluated how much they realize their emotional involvement, how much they process it in their thoughts and whether their feelings (skin conductivity) are affected by previous experiences or memories. Feelings are the results of emotions that arise as an immediate response to the actual situation in connection with experiences, interests and goals of the individual. They include subjective experiences, physiological changes, changes in focus and reactions, and changes in motoric manifestations. Emotions quickly inform people on how they currently feel and simultaneously affect the quality of received information or situation. According to experts in this field, emotions permeate through the complete sphere of the mind, affect cognitive processes of people, their motivation, value system and physical health including relationships. Thinking is described as a complex cognitive process happening between a person and their environment. Erroneous connecting of emotions with the brain or its functions leads to a notion that emotions can be influenced by the mind. It is not so. The intensity of emotions of university teachers watching an emotional video and how they afterwards “rationally” describe these emotions are part of this article.