The study of the evolution of emotions dates back to the 19th century. Evolution and natural selection has been applied to the study of human communication...

emotion has increased over the past two decades,[when?] with many fields contributing, including psychology, medicine, history, sociology of emotions...

Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective...

homeostatic emotion. Derek Denton proposed that primordial emotions are the likely incubators of consciousness in evolution; that a kind of non-reflective...

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859)...

Emotion is defined as any mental experience with high intensity and high hedonic content. The existence and nature of emotions in non-human animals are...

are tied to emotions. There are several explanations regarding the evolution of emotion.[improper synthesis?] One example is the emotion of disgust which...

perception. The roots of the word sympathy are the Greek words sym, which means "together", and pathos, which refers to feeling or emotion. See sympathy § Etymology...

work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals advanced the theory that there has been an evolution of emotion which developed in animals for...

preferences are important parts of evolutionary musicology, Darwinian literary studies, and the study of the evolution of emotion. As well as being applied...