1. Adaptive function: Emotion is an important way for the body to survive and develop. For example, sympathy and friendship can play a role in establishing social relations.
2. Motivation function: Emotion is also a basic part of motivation system, which can stimulate people's activities and improve their efficiency. Moderate emotional excitement is beneficial to physical and mental health.
3. Organizational function: Emotion has an organizational effect on other psychological activities, such as positive emotions have a coordinating effect on activities and negative emotions have a destructive effect.
4. Social function: Emotion can help people to convey information, such as smiling for friendliness and shaking your head for negation.
5. Recognition function: The recognition function of emotions is manifested in people's empathy and can put themselves in others' shoes.
The role of emotions is usually manifested in both physical and mental aspects.
1. Physiology: People's good emotional state can make nerve centers such as brain and hypothalamus act on immune cells by releasing hormones and neurotransmitters, thus enhancing immune function, improving physical function and preventing various diseases.
2. Spiritual aspect: Emotion plays an important role in people's will behavior and purpose behavior. Curiosity and interest will prompt people to explore complex expressions, and positive emotions will coordinate and organize activities. On the contrary, negative emotions play the role of destruction, disintegration and retreat.