James Dow (1992) External and Internal Approaches to Emotion
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Psycoloquy 3(01): External and Internal Approaches to Emotion
EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL APPROACHES TO EMOTION
Commentary on Nesse on Mood
James Dow
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 49309, USA
dow@argo.acs.oakland.edu
Abstract
The question about the fitness value of mood also
relates to the broader question of the fitness value of
emotion. Communication media, such as emotion, create adaptive
functioning. Thus, natural selection will select them in the
long run through the return communication channel, its DNA will
move on to later generations and will replicate all the
structures.
Keywords
Mood, evolution, natural selection, fitness, emotion,
adaptation, function, depression, psychology, psychiatry.
References
- Darwin, Charles. (1872, 1965). The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
- Dow, James. (1986). Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing: A Theoretical Synthesis. American Anthropologist 88(1), 56-69.