Why Do We Have Emotions? The Social Functions of Emotions

Abstract

Every people have emotions, and these emotions sometimes could be positive such as happiness, pride, love and occasionally negative like anger, sadness or embarrassment. A question comes to people’s mind at that point. Why do we have emotions? According to the evolutionary perspective, emotions have functional features for humankind. Emotions which evolved in the evolutionary history can provide many survival advantages people against to predators attack, dangerous situation and threats. Besides this, emotions are socially functional for humans. Humans are social creature and emotion we express, and experience may regulate their behavior, thoughts, interactions and relationship. There are some ideas about the social functions of emotions. Thus the aim of the present review study discuss and examine social functions of emotion according to the individual, interpersonal and group level with in light of the literature. 

Keywords

• Emotion,Social function,Emotion and social function

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