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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is There a Language of Emotion?

Cultures have their own emotion dialects, where we might express anger with like a dramatically raised set of upper eyelids. About 50 per cent of any expression that an individual would admit is this universal expression. Or you might add a littlehid a face cover of your out if you're laughing in japan. And so what's emerging in the scientific literatureis this idea that we do have this common language of expressing emotion.

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