When it comes to this article, the main goal that the authors, Qin Zhang, Stella Ting-Toomey and John G. Oetzel, had was to want to "connect emotion to FNT and examine the relationships between emotion and self-interpretation, facial concerns, and conflict styles (Zhang, Toomey, & Oeztel, 2014, p. 374). they brought out conflicts in themselves, especially in the United States and China. Ultimately the authors concluded that “face concerns have direct and indirect effects on conflict styles and provided further validation of a key theoretical premise of the. FNT framework” (Zhang, Toomey, & Oeztel, 2014, p. 389). Which is sometimes concerned with self-image, how they used this is that they wanted to expand more on “members of collectivistic cultures or individuals who are interdependent in the self-construal tend to be more oriented toward other/mutual, avoiding, obligating, compromising, and integration, while members of individualistic cultures or individuals who are independent in self-construal tend to be more self-oriented and to competition” (Zhang, Toomey and Oeztel, 2014, p. 374). Especially when it comes to certain emotions that almost everyone uses. There is something about anger, guilt and compassion that will always manage to surface. This article also further improves my understanding of the theory. Before reading it, I only knew the basics and how to apply it, but now I know a little more about how it works and how to understand it. The way this theory contributes to my understanding of human communication is that it makes me wonder what people are really hiding, especially if they are always trying to keep face. Even when they feel strong emotions, it's in that small moment that we get to truly see who they are by how they behave. The way I will now view communication differently because of this theory is that I will pay more attention to how people act. To really look and see if what people are showing us is really what they want us to see or if they are hiding