An evolutionary approach to emotion in mental health with a focus on affiliative emotions.
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Gilbert, Paul
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University of DerbyIssue Date
2015-04-10
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Emotions evolved to guide animals in pursuing specific motives and goals (e.g., to find food, avoid harm, seek out sexual partners, rear offspring). They function as short-term alertors and regulators of behaviour and can be grouped into their evolved functions (evolutionary function analysis). Emotions can coregulate/influence each other, where one emotion can activate or suppress another. Importantly, affiliative emotions, that arise from experiencing validation, care and support from others, have major impacts on how people process and respond to threats and emotions associated with threats. Hence, exploring how affiliative emotional experiences change and transform the capacity to cope with threat and pursue life goals, are salient research issues.Citation
Gilbert, P. (2015) 'An Evolutionary Approach to Emotion in Mental Health With a Focus on Affiliative Emotions', Emotion Review, 7 (3):230.Publisher
SageJournal
Emotion ReviewDOI
10.1177/1754073915576552Additional Links
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1754073915576552Type
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17540739EISSN
17540747ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/1754073915576552
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