Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Initial Questions

From your "What is an emotion?" papers:

What is the difference between emotions and feelings?
Are there male/female differences in emotions/emotional expression?
What is the evolutionary reason for emotions – what is their adaptive value?
Why is it so difficult to repress emotions?
Why is it so difficult to understand/talk about emotions?
What is the relationship between emotions and language related to emotional experience?
How can emotions be regulated? Can we “choose” which emotion to experience (e.g. frustration turned to humor)
When does the emotional “feeling” happen?
What is the role of emotions in rational thinking?
What is it like to have a defect in emotions/emotional expression, for example, in autism?
What information do we learn from facial expressions (or other expressions of emotions)
Is there one brain/genetic system that generates all emotions?
Is there an emotional intelligence?
Is emotional expression meant to be used as a form of communication, or is it just the by-product of the physical activation of an emotion?
Do non-human animals have emotions?

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