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emotions- social or within
are emotions socially conditioned?
Over the last two decades, however, an increasing scholarly awareness has emerged that emotions are inherently social—that is, they tend to be elicited by other people, expressed toward other people, and regulated to influence other people or to comply with social norms
An example of such an emotion is gratitude, which tends to arise in the context of social interactions with benevolent others and has been found to benefit mental health
Another inherently social emotion, nostalgia, involves a fond recollection of people and events in the past.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00896/full
Do emotions come from within?
Traditionally, emotions have been conceptualized and studied primarily as individual phenomena, with research focusing on cognitive and expressive components and on physiological and neurological processes underlying emotional reactions.
Emotions describe physiological states and are generated subconsciously. Usually, they are autonomous bodily responses to certain external or internal events. By contrast, feelings are subjective experiences of emotions and are driven by conscious thoughts and reflections.
There are as many alleged emotions as researchers have different opinions about them. As a rule of thumb, there are seven basic emotions: joy, surprise, fear, disgust, anger, contempt, and sadness.
https://imotions.com/blog/emotions-matter/
Emotions are generated by synchronization of neural networks throughout the human brain, involving visual and auditory areas in occipital and temporal regions that process incoming information as well as self-referential areas in parietal regions. During the processing of for example joyful stimuli, these areas closely interact with the medial orbitofrontal cortex
Further, the nucleus accumbens has been shown to be active when feeling desire. Negative emotions such as stress, fear, and disgust, on the other hand, are generally associated with much deeper and older brain structures such as the amygdala or the insula.
How are emotions created?
We create our emotions from bodily sensations, past experiences, and from learning emotional concepts from our parents and cultural upbringing. In short, our emotions are not reactions to the world, but an invention of our brain to explain the cause of our sensations and actions.
The social nature of emotions can be meaningfully analyzed at four different levels of analysis: the individual, dyadic, group, and cultural level
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00896/full
Three parts of emotion
A subjective component (how you experience the emotion)
A physiological component (how your bodies react to the emotion)
An expressive component (how you behave in response to the emotion).
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-purpose-of-emotions-2795181#:~:text=Emotions%20can%20play%20an%20important,critical%20components%20of%20an%20emotion
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Why do people have emotions?
Emotions can play an important role in how we think and behave. The emotions we feel each day can compel us to take action and influence the decisions we make about our lives, both large and small. In order to truly understand emotions, it is important to understand the three critical components of an emotion.
We have evolved emotions as ways of helping us to rapidly reorganise our mental and bodily resources to help us prepare for anything the world might throw at us.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/psychology/why-do-we-have-emotions
Take fear for example, when you hear a strange noise in the night feelings kick in and your senses become tuned for danger. Emotional memories recall how you coped with similar situations in the past and kick in to help you deal with this one.
Some emotions also have a primarily social function. Take guilt - unpleasant feelings such as this can motivate us into doing something a situation and this should help us make amends!