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BS 199: Batja Mesquita on Cultural Origins of Emotion

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Meaning of the Faces

Research shows that the context trumps the face when people try to guess what the emotion is. Across culture, we don't even know that the words bean the same that we give them for translations. People who learn a new language learn the language in certain contexts, but it takes a long time until they connect all the experiences that go into that category on their own.

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