Emotions



Emotions

Introduction

Emotions affect our daily lives and influence our decisions. Literally feel in the body and manifest in our facial expressions is termed as emotions. People, who achieve a healthy mental health or what is commonly called emotional intelligence, are aware of the thoughts, feelings and behaviours by which cross it. This paper focuses on identification of basic emotions and critically evaluation on one or more of these criteria along with the research evidence to support the case.

Discussion

An emotion that we experience is a subjective reaction to the environment is accompanied by organizational changes (physiological and endocrine) of innate origin, influenced by experience. Emotions have an adaptive function of our body that surrounds us. It is a condition that occurs suddenly and sharply, in the form of crises more or less violent and more or less temporary. Humans experience an emotion which usually involves a set of cognitions, attitudes and beliefs about the world, which we use to assess a particular situation and therefore influence the way we perceive the situation (Ekman P., 1992).

For a long time emotions have been considered very important and always has been given more prominence to the most rational of human beings. But emotions, being affective states, indicate personal inner states, motivations, desires, needs and even objectives. Anyway, it's hard to tell from the excitement which will be the future conduct of the individual, but can help us intuit. Charles Darwin watched animals (especially primates) had an extensive repertoire of emotions, and that this way of expressing emotions had a social function, for collaborating in the survival of the species. They have, therefore, an adaptive function.

Basic Emotion

There are 6 basic categories of emotions.

Considering this purpose adaptive emotions, we might say that they have different functions:

Humans have 42 different muscles in the face. Depending on how we move express a certain emotion or other. There are different smiles, expressing different degrees of happiness. This helps us express what we feel, that in many cases it is difficult to explain with words. It's another way to communicate and feel socially integrated in a social group. Just keep in mind that man is social animal par excellence (Ekman P., 1992).

The different facial expressions are international, in different cultures there is a similar language. We can see as blind or deaf children when they experience the emotions demonstrated much like other people have the same facial expression. There may be a genetic basis, hereditary as a child who is unable to mimic the facial expressions of others. Although expressions also vary somewhat depending on the culture, gender, country of origin etc. Women are more sensitive to better capture facial expressions or emotional signals and this sensitivity increases with age. Another example are the faces of the Orientals, especially Japanese, are quite expressionless, but ahead of the others, because at best express intimate emotions (Katsyri J., Sams, 2008).

Facial expressions also affect the person we are looking at changing their behaviour. If you watch someone who is crying we get sad or serious or even mourn as we can reach that ...