1.Now listen to part of a lecture on this topic in a psychology course.

1.Last month, my favorite uncle paid me a surprise visit.

2.I hadn’t seen him in many years.

3.The door bell rang, I opened the door and there was uncle Pete.

4.Now, I am sure when I saw him I said something like, “Uncle Pete, what a surprise!

5.How nice to see you.”

6.Anyway, my wife was standing next to me, and according to her, I wasn’t really aware of this, my eyes got really wide and I broke into a huge big smile, she said I was really jumping up and down like a little boy.

7.Well, anyway, later that evening uncle Pete told me how very very good he felt when he saw how happy I was to see him.

1.But compared that with this: my daughter, she’s six, we were building a bird house together last week, and I was showing her how to use a hammer and a nail.

2.And, of course, stupid me, I wasn’t being very careful when I smashed my thumb with the hammer.

3.Boy, it hurt!

4.I almost felt like screaming, but I didn’t want to upset my daughter, so I said, “Don’t worry, honey. It’s nothing.”

5.Meanwhile, I was shaking my hand as if that would stop my thumb from hurting and my face was contorted in pain.

6.My voice was trembling, too.

7.So, even though I told my daughter I was OK, I am sure she didn’t believe me, because she kept asking me if I was OK.