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...

on emotion has increased over the past two decades, with many fields contributing, including psychology, medicine, history, sociology of emotions, and...

Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective...

Emotion is defined as any mental experience with high intensity and high hedonic content. The existence and nature of emotions in non-human animals are...

preferences are important parts of evolutionary musicology, Darwinian literary studies, and the study of the evolution of emotion. As well as being applied...

are tied to emotions. There are several explanations regarding the evolution of emotion.[improper synthesis?] One example is the emotion of disgust which...

work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals advanced the theory that there has been an evolution of emotion which developed in animals for...

perception. The roots of the word sympathy are the Greek words sym, which means "together", and pathos, which refers to feeling or emotion. See sympathy § Etymology...

mother and father raise their offspring Evolution of emotion – Study of the evolution of emotions Evolution of empathy – Capacity to understand or feel...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859)...

study of how the brain processes emotions. This field combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. The basis of emotions...

Emotion can have a powerful effect on humans and animals. Numerous studies have shown that the most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional...

Uncertainty (2012) Emotion, Evolution and Rationality (2004) Placebo: The Belief Effect (2003) Introducing Evolution (2001) Emotion: The Science of Sentiment (2001)...

Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music. The field, a branch of music psychology,...

Anticipation is an emotion involving pleasure or anxiety in considering or awaiting an expected event. Anticipatory emotions include fear, anxiety, hope...

in the experience of emotion or a major determinant of feelings), in the case of surprise, some research has shown a strong lack of connection between...

The evolution of cetaceans is thought to have begun in the Indian subcontinent from even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) 50 million years ago (mya) and to...

lives but the evolutionary fate of their heirs in ways, we must assume, they could never have imagined. Powerful emotions were in play that many observers...

The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind is a 2006 book by cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky...

emotion or argumentum ad passiones (meaning the same in Latin) is an informal fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in...

Theories of emotion, vol. 1, New York: Academic Plutchik, Robert (2002), Emotions and Life: Perspectives from Psychology, Biology, and Evolution, Washington...

variety of functions including emotion, behavior, long-term memory, and olfaction. The limbic system is involved in lower order emotional processing of input...

an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion". Schadenfreude is a term borrowed from German. It is a compound of Schaden ("damage/harm")...

frenzy; rashness, foolhardiness, intense or violent emotion, anger, wrath; fierceness in battle; violence" (of storms, fire, etc.); from the Old French rage...

emotional expression was consistent with his theories on evolution and thus, the expression of emotion is universal and should therefore be expressed similarly...

be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, morality, conflict, and death. This is...

Nature of emotion : fundamental questions. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 291–293. ISBN 978-0-19-508944-8. Emotional processing, but not emotions, can...

The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions. As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to...

Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution...