Charles Darwin proposed that emotions are a product of evolution and are therefore universal. Which observation supports the idea that emotions are based in biology rather than in learning?

• A. A Japanese person would not show negative emotions in public, whereas an American would.
• B. A child, blind from birth, makes the appropriate facial expression for an emotion without ever having seen it.
• C. A child being scolded by a parent instinctively cries.
• D. People from different cultures laugh at the same joke.

Answer: (B)