We can use our emotions as a shortcut to save on processing time. Whether or not that shortcut leads us to the correct answer is a different question. Emotions

We can use our emotions as a shortcut to save on processing time. Whether or not that shortcut leads us to the correct answer is a different question. Emotions are not bad, they are just often dangerous when dealing with situations outside of our evolutionary context (groups of at most 160 hunter-gatherers, etc.).