I believe that we are born with the basic emotions which allow us to communicate our feelings to other people from the start, but we gradually learn new emotions as we mature and develop the basic ones. An example would be that a baby would cry when he/she is hungry and uncomfortable, or after being told off by their parents, which is the expression of the emotion of sadness. These emotions are then developed as we grow older, from our experiences and education as well as our general environment. Evidence to support this is that everyone is psychologically unique, as no two people are able to think, feel, do, say the exact same things, all at the same time.
We are born like a memory stick, a blank piece of hardware with only the basics installed. As we mature and increase in experience, the memory stick gains more and more data, the data being anything we absorb during our lives experiences, including emotions, giving us a wider range and variety of emotions to feel or to choose from. Each memory stick would also gain different data in different orders to other memory sticks, making each one unique.
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I agree, I also feel that we are born with basic emotions, and as we get older and interact with other people and learn more, we gradually get other emotions naturally and we probably dont know we have aqquired them.
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