КОГНИТИВНО-СТИЛЕВЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ* РАСПОЗНАВАНИЯ ЭМОЦИЙ КАК ФАКТОР УСПЕШНОЙ АДАПТАЦИИ К СОЦИАЛЬНОМУ ОКРУЖЕНИЮ

COGNITIVE STYLE'S PECULIARITIES OF EM'TIONS' RECOGNITION AS A FACTOR OF SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION TO THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

Man's ability to understand and recognize other person's emotions is an important part of interpersonal communication. Communication serves several vital functions in society: informational, instructive, persuasive, integrative, it helps us to maintain individual, societal stability and identity, to stay in touch with each other. That is why those who are good at emotions' recognition have some advantages in adaptation to the social environment. Cognitive styles as individual modes of information processing provide the successfulness of all cognitive process and the process of emotions' recognition as well. It has been hypothesized that cognitive style field dependence-independence influence on the emotion recognition because some emotions have “markers” that is better distinguished by field independent people.