PSY 240 Darwins Theory of Emotions

Emotions

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Darwin's theory is very interesting; it suggests that emotions from all of humans andin other species are possible because of evolution. Darwin's theory was madeup from three ideas. The first isExpressions emotions that comes from humans and also animals and shows what they will do next. Second involves behavioral signals for animal or human, this will evolve and help both with their communicative behavior, also sometimes even forgetting the first original behavior. Third and last the opposing messages is something that is recurrently communicated from the opposite behavior which is known as the principle of antithesis. The James-Lange theory says that the autonomic nervous system's response of the flight or fight response, which...