Emotions: Jacqui

I think that emotions are something that we learn. Emotions cannot be a biological part of us because if it is, we would all be the same, there would be no difference between everyone and we wouldn't be who we are.

A little girl at the age of 3 needed to go to the toilet at night, still awake as she only went into bed not long ago. She couldn't reach the switch and went in the dark. Having not been taught or experiences anything bad yet or seen horror movies or thrillers, she didn't have these haunting visions in her memory to scare her so she didn't feel scared or feared the dark.
A major percentage of the world are scared of the dark, and a main contribution to this are the fantasies we've been taught. The media nowadays are a major influence and this includes horror movies and thrillers. A human's brain processes this and under a simliar circumstance, we tend to remember this and fear it. This emotion cannot be "biological". It is learned. Although the reaction of it is linked to biological factors, the emotion itself isn't. Without being taught the scary things, it would be very hard, but not necessarily impossible to feel fear.
Fear could also be of losing a person, losing a game or even phobias. Fear of losing a person and a game is 'cause of what experiences you've been through and learnt from them. A phobia is due to extreme experiences we've had before which we don't necessarily remember therefore with this shadow in our memories, it could develop into a phobia. Yes, this is biologically related but without learning from the experience, the phobia itself wouldn't have developed.

Although I've only given examples of one emotion, I still strongly believe that emotions are gained from learning and experiences rather than biologically. I mean, how would you explain that the little girl wasn't scared due to biological reasons? I know for a fact that the brother of the girl is scared of the dark being 10 already. It's definately not biological. Emotions are learned.