Why Do We Need Emotions?

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Step 1: Watch Green, Feeling All the Feels:  

https://youtu.be/gAMbkJk6gnE 

Step 2: Watch Green, Emotions, Stress, and Health:
https://youtu.be/4KbSRXP0wik

Step 3: Address the following questions in discussion in one paragraph for each of the three questions:

Questions

1. Choose one emotion and describe its biological/physiological, behavioral, and cognitive components. Based on these components, choose the theory of emotion that you think best describes our emotional experiences and explain why this is the case. (Hint: the chapter this week only discusses the Cannon-Bard and James-Lange theories, but the videos here discuss Schachter and Singer’s Two-Factor theory, Zajonc’s theory, and the Facial Feedback Hypothesis, which you can use in your answer). 

2. Describe two emotions that could easily be confused by the person feeling them. Why are some emotions confused and not others?

3. Choose one emotion and describe its adaptive significance. Would human survival be negatively affected if we lacked this emotion?