Human Emotions: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective

Laith Al-Shawaf · Daniel Conroy‐Beam · Kelly Asao · David Michael Buss

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Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior Emotions and Moral Behavior Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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Evolutionary approaches to the emotions have traditionally focused on a subset of emotions that are shared with other species, characterized by distinct signals, and designed to solve a few key adaptive problems. By contrast, an evolutionary psychological approach (a) broadens the range of adaptive problems emotions have evolved to solve, (b) includes emotions that lack distinctive signals and are unique to humans, and (c) synthesizes an evolutionary approach with an information-processing perspective. On this view, emotions are superordinate mechanisms that evolved to coordinate the activity of other programs in the solution of adaptive problems. We illustrate the heuristic value of this approach by furnishing novel hypotheses for disgust and sexual arousal and highlighting unexplored areas of research.

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