PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Stanley Schachter, Walter Bradford Cannon
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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. It has often been thought that anger is always destructive to the self and to social relations y y early theorists of emotions, the epicureans and stoics, (2,000 years ago), thought that emotions are irrational and damaging. Nineteenth-century founders y three theorists: darwin, james, and freud, laid foundations for our understanding of emotions. concluded that emotional expressions derive largely from habits that in our evolutionary or individual past had once been useful. he thought emotional expressions were like vestigial parts of our bodies (like the appendix) ex. an expression in which we partially uncover the teeth on one side, is a behavioral vestige of snarling, and of preparing to bite; this was functional in some distant ancestor, but is so no longer.
