Undset's masterly depiction of Jenny's evolving emotions makes one realize that one is in the presence of an acute observer of the way lovers behave with, think about and react to each other.
Critic Roberta Reeder notes that the early poems always attracted large numbers of admirers: "For Akhmatova was able to capture and convey the vast range of evolving emotions experienced in a love affair, from the first thrill of meeting, to a deepening love contending with hatred, and eventually to violent destructive passion or total indifference.
More broadly, a large body of research now exists that shows we humans are capable of consciously evolving our emotions, thoughts and attitudes in positive, authentic directions, when we work at it.
But behind reducing Riley's emotional life to a small five-member group is the notion, going back to Charles Darwin, that all human beings share a core of evolved universal emotions (the list of which is still debated among scientists) that are comparable across continents and cultures and essential for survival.
The other thing I learned is that everyone has a different story of survival, and his or her own way of coping (or not) with a confusing array of feelings and emotions evolving through time: incredulity, closeness with strangers, sadness, rage, resignation, hope and, sometimes, indifference.
Each of the two quartets has been pieced together into a time-traveling novella filled with hindsight and passion and ever-evolving emotions.
The experience was, in a way, preparation for his next post — he was installed at Trinity and St. Paul's in 2004 — because he saw how the city's emotions were evolving.
Researchers have long acknowledged that emotions evolved to motivate actions, but Casasanto suspects the link between action and emotion is even closer than people realize.
Love.' Desire fades, emotions evolve, combust, decay.
The sentiments of love and guilt are not Christian hangovers, they are evolved, higher cognitive emotions.
These emotions evolved to enable our forebears to escape predators, fight enemies or reject polluted food.
