Charles Darwin speculated that nonverbal expression and communication evolved in the absence of language as a mechanism to help us survive. As an evolutionary process emotions are found in other animals and so our innate they're in board. a genetic component is therefore likely to be involved in the way in which we experience and express emotion. But our emotions don't necessarily define our destiny, how we grow up and what we become as we grow into adults. So a timid child doesn't necessarily grow into a timid, shy, unconfident adult. The way in which our parents used and express their emotions helped us to learn how we work with our emotions.

Abuse in childhood has an influence on how emotions are managed and used and hinder learning about the appropriate use of emotion. A poor ability to read the emotions of other people may lead to the development of poor social skills with the consequence that for these people, it becomes difficult to build long term lasting relationships. There's a strong biological purpose for emotion, emotions signal non verbally to others, that they may have to take some immediate action. So, expressions of surprise, fear, anger and disgust will encourage those around us to respond in ways that are appropriate to that emotion, providing a very strong impulse for them to take action. Each emotion is expressed in a unique physiological manner, in order that our bodies are prepared for the appropriate action. In other words, the emotion prepares us so that we can take flight or fight Or perhaps choose another response.

Our emotion and our action provides a motivational trigger to others around us to act in similar ways. our emotions provide us with the motivation that we need to commit events to memory. And so emotions become fundamental to the way in which we learn and to our learning.