Emotion

Emotions are psychophysiological phenomena that represent modes of adaptation to certain environmental stimuli or internal representation.

Psychologically, emotion is the individual responses to internal and external stimuli, rapidly organize the responses of different biological systems, including facial expressions, muscles, voice, SNA activity and endocrine system, in order to establish an optimal internal environment for more effective behavior.

Behaviorally, emotions serve to establish our position in response toward the environment, prompting certain responses about certain people, objects, actions, ideas and away from others.

Emotions are neurochemical and cognitive processes related to the architecture of the mind-decision making, memory, attention, perception, imagination, which have been perfected by the process of natural selection in response to the needs of survival and reproduction.