Ayesha's blog on emotion

This lesson we explored the different emotions a human experiences, and the implications of them on ourselves.
We listed all the emotions that crossed our minds, and saw how the negative emotions overruled the positive ones. After identifying the positive and negative of each emotion, we decided to place every emotion in a continuum, from the strongest to weakest. This raised discussion, as everyone’s perception of which emotion was stronger or weaker then the other varied. I personally felt that all emotions are almost stationary, and can go to any extreme depending on the situation and circumstance.
Furthermore, we started discussing how emotions are felt in the first place. This brought three theories to mind:
1. All emotions are in the mind
2. All emotions are learned
3. All emotions are innate
Most of the class disagreed with the fact that all emotions are in the mind. However, debates were created between emotions are learned, and emotions are innate, as some people believe that society nourishes the seed of emotion that is already within us. However, some people went to extreme sides saying that emotions are innate, or emotions are planted into us by parents and society. This is how we started to classify emotions, by discussing where emotions actually came from.