An evolutionary approach to emotion in mental health with a focus on affiliative emotions.
Journal article
Authors | Gilbert, Paul |
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Abstract | 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. |
Emotions evolved to guide animals in pursuing specific motives and goals (e.g., to find food, avoid harm, seek out sexual partners, | |
Keywords | Affect systems; Affiliative emotions; Regulation; Coping; Emotion |
Year | 2015 |
Journal | Emotion Review |
Publisher | Sage |
ISSN | 17540739 |
17540747 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073915576552 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622300 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/622300 | |
Publication dates | 10 Apr 2015 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 13 Mar 2018, 14:24 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to Emotion Review |
Contributors | University of Derby and Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Kingsway Hospital, UK |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/95604/an-evolutionary-approach-to-emotion-in-mental-health-with-a-focus-on-affiliative-emotions
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