id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7179 Functional accounts of emotion - Wikipedia .html text/html 3786 571 50 For example, emotions structure relationships by facilitating bonding that promotes survival.[9][10] Additionally, the expression of emotions can coordinate group behavior, thus promoting cooperation and collaboration.[11][12] Interdisciplinary research in fields such as cultural psychology, sociology, and anthropology found that sociocultural norms often interact with and even emerge from individual and collective emotional experiences, providing further support for the role of emotions in organizing social life.[13][14] While some researchers retained that emotions may have once been functional but are no longer necessary in the present environment,[15] many researchers began to adopt the now-dominant view that emotions are systems that aim to provide solutions to problems in the present-day environment.[1] Given how emotional responses affect individual experience and behavior, researchers describe the intrapersonal function of specific emotions in terms of how they inform and prepare individuals to respond to a particular environmental challenge.[17] For example, feeling anger usually informs individuals of something unjust in the environment,[16] such as betrayal from a loved one, threats of physical violence from a bully, or corruption. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7179.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7179.txt