is there a scientific explanation for emotions, and...?

Question

and do people really have to take emotions seriously?

why?

Answer 1

The BIOLOGY of human cooperation is well-researched and documented.


The book "The Moral Animal" describes a "forensic" approach to discovering the origins of human behavior. This study is called "evolutionary psychology":

http://www.scifidimensions.com/Mar04/moralanimal.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology






I don't think most people take emotions seriously.



They are simply addicted to the good ones or the bad ones.






A serious student of emotions would be "happier" and more excited to experience ALL emotions as they come............ rather than establishing a preference so early in their development that they restrict their experiences and observations to only the ones that , ultimately, become self-serving.

Answer 2

There is very little data in the way of scientific explanations.

There are a number of theories.

Oxytocin stimulates emotions, and there is a little scientific explanation for that; it is the hormone that fosters the desire for bonding.

Emotions can be a result of past experiences. They can also serve as a warning device, or a method of attraction.

Emotions should be taken seriously, but they should be balanced with reason and logic.

Would you want to live in a cold, analytical world without emotions? I wouldn't, because although they can hurt, they can also produce joy.

Answer 3

Emotions have their basis in primitive fight or flight instincts. Basically, signals in the environment cause hormonal changes such as increased pulse rate from adrenalin, and physiological arousal. While these impulses have their roots in enabling a rapid response to danger, or to compete for mating rites, as our brains have evolved, these have translated into 'emotions'. However, the labels we attach to such moments of physiological arousal are defined through socialisation. So if we become aware of our heart racing, we may, depending on the situation describe the emotion as 'being in love' or 'being apprehensive about the imminent job interview'. That's the scientific explanation. As for taking emotions seriously... it depends on whether you attach valid reasons to physiological arousal, or just indulge in the arousal for attention-seeking (also an innate response). I could go on...but you get the point!

Answer 4

It seems emotions are for assertion & not
comprehension, displacement of attention
from one reference to another while participatory
emotions are transfered to their destination within
their matrix of way ...
emotions come from tensions of experience
absorbing the nature of our selves, a resonance
via our senses, so our feelings are like attaining a
catharsis from preceptions to mental, an electrical
charged manifestation from the nature of who we
are as thinking human Beings.
One may take emotions seriously, they manifest
from us, we are the source of our own emotional
output, it is up to each individual as to how much
to take seriously and how to react & process the
emotional expression and either make use of it or
not .....

Answer 5

No, thoughts are genuinely mandatory! a sturdy, non-neurological position to seem is Reversal idea, that's a organic and organic idea of the type of emotion. besides the undeniable fact that, the neurological information is exciting. curiously that persons with damaged amygdalas can't "experience" their thoughts. It seems that with out thoughts you may't make rational options. the reason being that you may't make certain which effect you want. Rationality emerged to regulate your thoughts. you surely want rationality to get you from an unfavorable state to an attractive state. when you're contained in the state you want to be in, then you definately do not want to reason something by. Economics discusses this besides. All monetary issues initiate with the type of your options. besides the very undeniable reality that it's not attainable for an economist to understand what you want, that's attainable to computer screen habit and infer options given countless value contraptions. Emotion is the bottom for all animal survival, it determines reaction to stimuli. in reality, emotion takes position previous to questioning. people react to stimuli before cognition takes position. thoughts are the biochemical reactions to stimuli, that then set off cognition and specializing in that stimuli or ignoring it.

Answer 6

Research in the Netherlands has found that the brainwave for our emotion "compassion" is the most similar electromagnetic wave to the Universe's "frequency".

Answer 7

I really think you should endevour to purchase a book called Awakening Intuition by Mona Lisa Schulz.
Our right brain governs our emotions and the left half of our brain controls our intellect.... so to answer your question... YES I think we need both sides of our brain.

Answer 8

We should handle People's Emotions like a fine Wine or we might get soured Wine on our hands and no one wants that! God Bless!

Answer 9

I do not know. I am an alien from the planet VULCAN and we do not have emotions. Except maybe when I watch X-factor when that annoying Simon Colwell bloke comes and and starts shouting his mouth off, ohh, he makes my blood boil he does and then I get really really angry and want to smash the screen and....NO! STOP! I AM IN CONTROL OF MY EMOTIONS, I AM IN CONTROL OF MY EMOTIONS.....

Answer 10

did you ever watch the old ; the original star trek tv series, the plot of that series was ; emotions v. logic. the original series came out in the 1960's. I think they were the best