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There are three major reasons why we experience emotions. Emotions help to motivate us for action: Emotions help to organize our behaviour and set us in motion to accomplish a goal.
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A feeling is the result of an emotion and may be influenced by memories, beliefs and other factors. A mood is described by the APA as “any short-lived emotional state, usually of low intensity.” Moods difer from emotions because they lack stimuli and have no clear starting point.
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Our key primary emotions are: fear; sadness; disgust; surprise; anger (although sometimes is secondary); contempt; and joy/happiness. Each primary emotion has a distinct purpose and functionality, and can be either adaptive (healthy) or maladaptive (unhealthy), as depicted in the table below.
Jun 5, 2007 · PDF | Purpose – Consumption situations can be emotionally charged. Identifying the cause (s) of emotions has clear practical import to the understanding... | Find, read and cite all the...
The basic emotions, their biological bases, overt expressions, cultural influences, their relationship with motivation, and some techniques to help you manage your emotions better will also be dealt with.
That provides one rationale for why conscious cognition might be functional, but why be conscious of emotion? What are feelings for? One function of conscious emotion is to aid learning by drawing our attention to the most important or urgent aspects of a situation.
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To do so, we review two promising evolutionary approaches to emotion, discuss research linking particular emotions to specific adaptive problems, and argue that these theoretical arguments and empirical findings are consistent with the claim that the emotions often display evidence of being designed to aid, rather than hinder, social decision ...
