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Converting emotional responses into underlying needs
Converting emotional responses into underlying needs redirects attention from other-person behavior to self-requirements, generating response options that reactive scripts exclude.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounded in Satisfying the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, (basic psychological needs) and Emotions function as evaluative signals that provide (emotions as evaluative signals). Prescribes need-identification as response strategy—principle for constructive social interaction.