Research 3

The Origin of Universal Human Emotions

Source : The Origin of Universal Human Emotions (PDF)
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My Topic : Humans are actually not controlling and not able to control their emotions.

What I Hope to Learn :
I want to learn about how human emotions have been changed from the ancient history to the current society. I wonder if there are some information like the role of human emotions that I couldn't figure about.


Notes :

The Evolution of Human Emotion
1. Emotions are biological(pysiological response), psychological(mental), and social(interactions&relationship).
2.  Emotions evolved to help us cope with events and situations that had consequences for our immediate welfare.(Forms any consequence or solution in any situations)
3. Emotions evolved to allow us to rapidly, efficiently, automatically, and unconsciously react to the world without thinking, and prepare us to act (or react) appropriately.
4. Emotions aid in adaptation because they recruit programs that coordinate and orchestrate other evolved systems, such as perception, attention, inference, learning, memory, goal choice, motivational priorities, physiological reactions, motor behaviors, and behavioral decision making.

Basic Emotions
1. Humans experience many different types of emotions, including self-conscious emotions, positive emotions, prosocial emotions, and moral emotions.
2. The basic emotions include anger, contempt, disgust, fear, enjoyment, sadness, and surprise.
3. These Basic Emotions are shared with our primate ancestors. That is to say, they appear to be emotional reactions that nonhuman primates have as well.
4.  Basic emotions refer to a quite large and varied emotional world. They include several detailed emotions. That's why they are called 'Basic'
How are Emotions Triggered?
1. Emotions can be triggered by the existence of a base processing system that could occur in interactions with nature or with other humans. The system is hard-wired and hard to be changed by experience through the lifespan.
2. The process of triggering emotions are like that
(1) Perception which is turned to schemas consist of two components- physical characteristics & psychological meanings)
(2) Apparisal which happens immediately and unconsciously and matches to decide an emotional response.
*If it doesn't match, the individual continues to scan the environment.
3. This process is coordinated.
4. People all around the world universally have some prototypic schema in the emotion schema database when they are born.
5. People can learn to have emotions to virtually anything.
6. The ability to learn to have emotional reactions allows for large cultural and individual differences.

The Basic Emotion Response System
1. Physiological Reactions, Cognitions, Feelings, and Expressions are the basic emotions response system.

The Impact of Evolved Emotions Today
1. Humans in many current cultures today are conquering or controlling personal climate while our ancestors were trying to survive and exist in the nature.
2. Emotions allow for complex social networks and relationships, and enhance the meaning of normal, daily activities.
3. The key for the future is not to eliminate emotions. We can’t. Instead, we need to learn how to regulate our emotions to live in a civilized, new world.



Final thoughts :
This research helped me to understand that human emtions have been the major source of our history and have changed by the changing environment and human attributes. It helped me to agree on the basic human emotions which we commonly show on our face. The process of triggering emtions and the basic emotion response system helped me to learn that humans regulate or feel their emotions by several things that are inherent in themselves, not by their own ability.This research helped me with supporting my opinion.