Learned emotions, feelings and states

Learned emotions are all those emotions that a child (and later an adult) has been taught from existing cultural patterns. Or emotions that he learned on his own, but also according to the patterns of the culture around him.

For example, grief is a learned emotion.

Learned emotions belong to the class of operational emotions.

Learned emotions are different from innate ones, which the child does not learn, but receives along with other innate reactions and innate abilities. Learned emotions can be (rather arbitrarily) divided into two very large groups: the emotions of children’s culture and the emotions of adult culture.

Emotions, feelings, and states of children’s culture are those that are invented, adopted from each other and mastered by children themselves, primarily in connection with the task of controlling parents and other adults. On the contrary, the emotions and states of adult culture are those that are created in the circle of adults and are passed on to children for pedagogical purposes. Sorrow, sublime love or a sense of patriotism are examples of the feelings of an adult circle.

At the age of 3 to 7 years, children successfully master the emotions and states of children’s culture, such as shyness, fatigue, boredom, resentment, confusion, frustration, tantrums, despair, horror … When it is beneficial for them, children learn to get sick. Children learn and master those emotions of the state that most effectively protect them from their parents or allow them to control their parents. It is interesting that, first of all, these are negative emotions — parents are led to them the easiest way.