{"id":162,"date":"2019-07-01T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T01:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2022-04-14T17:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:43:46","slug":"what-are-emotions-why-do-we-have-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-emotions-why-do-we-have-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Emotions? Why Do We Have Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is emotion? Why do we have them? What purpose do emotions have in our lives? What is the point of anger, sadness, jealousy, anxiety, and more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Are <\/strong>Emotions?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emotions are strong impulses that urge us to take immediate action.<\/strong> The root of the word emotion is <em>motere<\/em>, the Latin verb meaning \u201cto move.\u201d Watch children or animals: they act almost immediately upon getting a feeling, before they know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a widely-held belief that emotions aren\u2019t rational. But passionate emotional responses are designed to overwhelm reason. The more intense the emotion, the more it takes over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emotions have developed over centuries of evolutionary history. They\u2019re based on fundamental needs, and <strong>designed to prevent our brain from thinking about tasks that are too important to leave to intellect alone.<\/strong> Our most powerful emotions want us to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Avoid danger to survive.<\/li><li>Suffer loss but survive.<\/li><li>Reach a goal despite obstacles, usually to survive.<\/li><li>Find a mate and bond with them, for ultimate survival in the form of children.<\/li><li>Keep the family alive to ensure survival of genes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These situations repeated over and over again throughout the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/history-of-humankind\/\">history of humankind<\/a>, and if the reactions kept us alive, then they got embedded more deeply into our systems and became automatic responses. Most of them involve life or death, surviving or perishing. This was useful for our ancient ancestors, but <strong>nowadays most people rarely face life or death scenarios&#8211;yet our emotions still perceive things this way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we became more civilized, society had to develop and implement rules to rein in our emotional reactions, or create consequences for when we could not control our emotions. Humans can\u2019t be expected to control their emotional responses unless there are negative results they understand. 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This part of the human brain is three times as large as the neocortex of our evolutionary next of kin, nonhuman primates. The neocortex also contributes to a more complex emotional life: it\u2019s the reason we can have <em>feelings<\/em> <em>about our feelings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This development explains why emotions can supercede our rationality&#8211;they\u2019re more or less second in command in our brains. <\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/emotional-brain\/\">emotional brain<\/a> is quick to respond but sloppy. First we have feelings; second, thoughts.Emotions <em>can<\/em> come after thoughts, but this is a slower process happening in the brain: as we take in stimuli, our rational mind reflecting on the input leads to conclusions that spark an emotional reaction. For example, you get into a cab and know the general direction you\u2019re heading&#8211;but the driver heads off in a different direction. You observe for a few minutes and come to the conclusion \u201cthis driver is swindling me\u201d&#8211;and <em>then<\/em> you get angry.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is emotion? Why do we have them? What purpose do emotions have in our lives? What is the point of anger, sadness, jealousy, anxiety, and more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-emotional-intelligence","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Are Emotions? 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