emotional cue
Mood-shifting prompt
An emotional cue is a signal—facial expression, tone of voice, body language, or word choice—that conveys someone's feelings.
Reading emotional cues is central to social intelligence: She picked up on his emotional cues and changed the subject.
The term appears in psychology and everyday conversation about interpersonal dynamics.
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
- body languageUnspoken physical expression
- toneQuality of sound
- facialBeauty service for skin
raised eyebrow · eye contact · gesture · trigger · caught off guard · hint · feeling · mood · gut feeling · reaction · subtext · microexpression · voice · tears · choked up · smile · frown · tension
emotional cuelogical reasoning
Structured thought process
reasoned argument · data point · empirical evidence · logos · syllogism
emotional, emotion, emotions, emotionally, emotive, emote, emotes, emoted, emoting