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«Below are provisional lists of [...] emotional skill needs, and
experiential needs.

Emotional skill needs are the need for basic skills and abilities for
handling emotions:

* Emotional self-awareness: a need to learn to appraise and express
what one is feeling;
* Managing emotions: the need to handle and regulate feelings so that
they are appropriate;
* Self-motivation: a need to learn to harness one's emotions in the
service of a goal, for example by delaying gratification.
* Affect perception: a need to accurately appraise what others are
feeling as they are feeling and expressing it;
* Empathy: a need to learn to appreciate what others are feeling
(closely linked in the literature to emotional self-awareness);
* Handling relationships, primarily via managing the emotions of
others. This skill is a necessary component of friendship, intimacy,
popularity, and leadership.

Experiential emotional needs [...] are mostly inherently social needs,
and are therefore usually only met with the assistance or presence of
others.

These include a need

* for attention -- strong and constant in children, fading to varying
degrees in adulthood;
* to feel that one's current emotional state is understood by others
(particularly during strong emotional response);
* to love and feel reciprocity of love;
* to express affection, and feel reciprocated affection expressed;
* for reciprocity of sharing personal disclosure information;
* to feel connected to others;
* to belong to a larger group;
* for intimacy;
* to feel that one's emotional responses are acceptable by others;
* to feel accepted by others;
* to feel that emotional experience and responses are "normal";
* for touch, to be touched;
* for security.»

-- Jonathan Klein, Rosalind W. Picard and Jocelyn Riseberg, "Support
for Human Emotional Needs in Human-Computer Interaction",
http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/97.klein-picard-riseberg.pdf