Charles Darwin's Theory: The Evolution Of Emotions

In the late 19th century, Charles Darwin theory argued that the emotions were actually served a purpose for humans like in communication and also in aiding their survival. He also argued that emotions evolved via natural selection and later on had the universal cross-cultural counterparts. He proposed that this basic emotions and social emotions evolved to motivate behaviors that were had an adaptive value. Example, the fear emotion evolved because it enhances the capability of a person to survive. Darwin also believed that facial expressions of emotions are already existed when the time a person or animal was born. He mentioned that facial expression allows people to judge quickly on someone’s friendliness or hostility and on how the intentions

of individual to communicate with others.
Not long ago, some evolutionary theories of emotion also consider emotions to be innate to stimuli. Evolutionary theorists believe that all human cultures share several primary emotions and all other emotions could result from blends and different intensities of these primary emotions. The different evolutionary theories were existed regarding on how and why people experiencing emotion. These theories are namely, the James-Lange theory, the Canon-Bard theory, Schacter and Singer’s two-factor theory, and Cognitive Theory.