PSYC18H3 Chapter 1: Psychology of Emotion - Chapter 1
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Indeed many psychologists and biologists assume that this is what he did say. He was one of the rst to use questionnaires y. In his book on emotions, darwin asked two broad questions that guide emotion researchers today. The second question darwin addressed is where do our emotions come from? y darwin concluded that emotional expressions derive largely from habits that in our evolutionary or individual past had once been useful. Some actions occur in modern humans whether they are useful or not, and are triggered involuntarily in circumstances analogous to those that had triggered the original habits y he thought emotional expressions were like vestigial parts of our bodies. In our digestive system, for instance, is a small, functionless organ, the appendix. In darwin s eyes, then, our emotions link us to our past, both to the past of our species and to our own infancy.
