What+Even+Are+Emotions?✪

  Emotions throughout the years To study the development of human emotions, researchers have focused on what they can observe as a display of emotion, such as facial expression and public behavior.  Early Infancy (birth-six months): Between six and ten weeks a smile emerges. The smile occurs in response to adult smiles and interactions. Laughter occurs at around 3-4 months. Later Infancy (7-12 months): During the last half of the first year, infants begin expressing fear, disgust, and anger. Anger, usually expressed by crying, is a frequent emotion expressed by infants. Fear also appears during this stage as children begin to compare familiar things with unfamiliar things. A fear of strangers, one of the more common fears during this stage, starts around 7 months. A second fear of this stage is called separation anxiety. Infants 7-12 months old may cry when a parent or guardian leaves them. Toddlerhood (1-2 years): During the second year, infants express emotions of shame or embarrassment and pride. Also, toddlers develop language and begin to learn to verbally express their feelings. Preschool (3-6 years): Children learn how to cope with their emotional behavior. Middle Childhood (7-11 years): Children ages 7-11 show a greater variety of skills to self-control their emotions. These emotion regulation skills are considered important to establishing, developing, and maintaining social relationships. Adolescence (12-18 years): Adolescents have become advanced at regulating their emotions. They have developed a wide vocabulary to discuss, and then influence, their own emotional state and the emotional state of others. Gender also plays a role in the types of emotions displayed by adolescents. Boys are less likely than girls to show their fearful emotions. 
 * Emotion** for most people, is a feeling, such as happiness, anger, or sadness, that is triggered by certain events or thoughts. Emotions can cause changes in your body or your behavior without your own effort or control. Emotions can come along with physical feelings like a rapid heartbeat or sweaty palms. An emotion can be pleasant or unpleasant, mild or strong. Charles Darwin once proposed that all mammals express internal mental states in a similar way, through body postures and facial behaviors that he called expressions. Some scientists believe that each emotion issues from specific nerve networks in the brain. Thus, people are supposed to experience the same body behavior with a particular emotion regardless of the situation that triggers it. Emotions can push humans toward action.

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