PSYC18H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Textbook Notes
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For over two thousand years, many thinkers have argued that our emotions are base and destructive and that the more noble reaches of human nature are achieved when our passions are controlled by our reason. We begin by looking at three theorists: darwin, james, and freud, who laid foundations not just for our understanding of emotions but for the whole fields respectively of evolutionary biology, psychology, and psychotherapy. In 1872, charles darwin, the central figure in modern biology, published the most important book on emotions written yet. J the expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872). Earlier, in the origin of species (1859) he had described how living things have evolved to be adapted to their environments. Many psychologists and biologists assume that darwin proposed that emotions had functions in our survival, but he did not argue this. Darwin began writing notes on his observations of emotions in 1838.
