Emotion: Chloe Chan

I think we learn the physical side of emotions from observing models but we have innate emotions. I think that the common idea that people who have never experienced sadness and therefore will never be sad is untrue. I believe all individuals will feel sad in some point in their life, but they either don’t know how to express it or they don’t recognize the feeling as sadness.

In more detail, emotions such as sadness are learned in the way that we can see emotions expressed physically and therefore we can imitate and express sadness ourselves. But in order to be able to express our emotions we must be able to relate it to the right physical expression. This is where the structure and wiring of the brain also comes in. Perhaps one brain maybe more able to relate to a certain emotion than another. Therefore, if someone has a growing tumor in an area of the brain that is supposedly responsible for a certain emotion, the emotion will become disordered.