• Question: Why do people feel different emotions?

    Asked by confuddled213 to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      For our survival, it is very important that we do certain things (eg avoid danger, eat, have children) Emotions are a very powerful way of making us do those things, and so they are absolutely necessary.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Every person understands the world around them differently, so something that makes one person angry might make another person sad. It depends on what you’ve experienced in your life before that point, and what knowledge you have. No two people know exactly the same things.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      And the degree to which you react in certain ways to things is written in your genes as well (blame your parents).

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