• How would you explain natural selection to someone in the general population?
• Research has shown that positive emotions and dispositions like happiness, awe, and optimism are associated with many positive life outcomes. Additionally, there are entire industries built around increasing positive emotions. (For example, a google search of "how to increase happiness" returns about 84,600,000 results)
• However, humans have many "negative" emotions- for example, anger, sadness, jealousy, anxiety, shame, contempt. We seem to experience them frequently and there may even be a genetic component. So why do we have these emotions?nh