Learning emotion

There is an aspect of learning in emotion. While the ability to experience emotion in the body with the corresponding body actions may be innate, it's possible that for some stimuli to actually stimulate emotion, we must learn, by example, which stimuli trigger which emotional reaction. For example, the case study of the baby monkeys showed that they did not exhibit the emotion of fear when presented with the stimulus of a snake if they had never been exposed to an adult monkey reacting in fear to a snake. However, if, even only one time, the baby monkey observed an adult monkey reacting in fear to a snake, this was sufficient to trigger the innate emotional response of fear towards snakes from then forward. Therefore, the monkey has the capacity to experience the emotional response of fear to snakes, but must first learn this ECS.