Human uses of mammals that "one is well advised to study the behaviour rather than attempting to get at any underlying emotion". Charles Darwin however had accepted the idea of emotion in animals, writing his 1872 book "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" on the subject. Darwin believed that mammals had social, mental and moral lives. In "The Descent of Man" (1871), he wrote: "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties." Biologists remained wary of the idea, even for the great apes, but this led to serious difficulties, as Donald O. Hebb explained
Emotions and culture but the patterns are social constructions. Some also theorize that culture is affected by emotions of the people. Research on the relationship between culture and emotions dates back to 1872 when Darwin argued that emotions and the expression of emotions are universal. Since that time, the universality of the six basic emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise) has ignited a discussion amongst psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists. While emotions themselves are universal phenomena, they are always influenced by culture. How emotions are experienced, expressed, perceived, and regulated varies as a function of culturally normative behavior by the surrounding