- In encouraging organisms to pursue adaptive goals, the brain has assembled a system of rewards and punishments.
- Emotions are motivational amplifiers (Tomkins, 1980).
- The only emotions we experience are emotions that have been designed by natural selection as adaptations that enhance survival:
jealousy, embarrassment, hunger, disgust, suspicion, sympathy, itchiness, love -- all are adaptations
- There are no non-adaptive emotions.