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The decrease of the limbic system reduced the dependence of humans on base emotions, and the increase in the neocortex allowed humans greater control over remaining emotional circuits as well as greater cognitive capacities. The limbic system concept stimulated much research in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Emotions. v. t. e. The study of the evolution of emotions dates back to the 19th century. Evolution and natural selection has been applied to the study of human communication, mainly by Charles Darwin in his 1872 work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. [1] Darwin researched the expression of emotions in an effort to support his ...
Scientists have made progress in understanding infants’, children’s, and adults’ abilities to recognize, communicate, and regulate their emotions. However, many questions remain unanswered or only partly answered. We are poised to move from descriptions of aspects of emotional functioning to conceptualizing and studying the developmental ...
Aug 23, 2024 · Solms suggests that emotions arise from the brain's predictions about the body's internal state, aimed at maintaining homeostasis. For example, hunger represents a prediction that the body needs ...
Abstract. ‘The evolution of emotion’ argues that emotions were—and still are—vital for survival. Ever since Plato, many Western thinkers have tended to view emotions as obstacles to intelligent action. We are all familiar with cases in which an excess of emotion prevents people from acting intelligently. The opposite idea—the positive ...
Jan 18, 2013 · Abstract. Feelings are mental experiences of body states. They signify physiological need (for example, hunger), tissue injury (for example, pain), optimal function (for example, well-being ...
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e Author(s) 2015ISSN 1754-0739 DOI: 10.1177/1754073914565518er.sagepub.comEvolutionary approaches to the emotions have traditionally focused on a subset of emotions that are shared with other species, characte. ized by distinct signals, and designed to solve a few key adaptive problems. By contrast, an evolutionary psychological approach (a ...
