Emotions are very ancient and come mostly from the amygdala which is the oldest structure in our brains. Fear comes from there and was one of the very necessary emotions for survival at a very early stage in life forms. Sex drive is also a very early emotion working on all sexually reproduced animals forever.
Other emotions, like empathy, developed much later.
If you think about how these emotions feel to you, you will know they are involuntary and manifest themselves before your conscious mind can deal logically with them.
2007-03-16 02:42:47
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answered by Joan H 6
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What are emotions? An emotion is a subjective state of feeling accompanied by changes in the body that prepare the organism for a specific type of action. The autonomic nervous system, limbic system, and other factors play a role. Check out my link at the bottom for a more complete breakdown of the biology of emotions and why our body behaves the way it does.
Why do we have different emotions? Consider the evolutionary origins and functions of normal emotions. They were shaped by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and were "designed" to maximize reproductive success. So basically, emotions are cognitive processes that govern cooperation, sexual attraction, jealousy, aggression, parental love, friendship, romantic love, the aesthetics of landscape preferences, coalitional aggression, incest avoidance, disgust, predator avoidance, kinship, and family relations. Negative emotions such as anxiety and low mood are not disorders, but, like the capacity for pain, are evolved defenses.
2007-03-16 10:41:26
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answered by Niotulove 6
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i had a research about how can electromagnetics affect body.
our thoughts which control our behavior, are electromagnetic.
electromagnetics can affect body , and cause many result in body.
actualy scientis notice that our thoughts made from energy.
they can effect body even more than matter or any other elements.
2007-03-16 11:58:47
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answered by Pretty Girl 4
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