
54: Emotions Are Not What You Think (with Lisa Feldman Barrett )
On Wisdom
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The Science of Facial Expressions
context is a very unfortunate word, because it implies that there are some signals which are central and then everything else is just context. So the paper wasn't really about facial expressions. It was just that the science of facial expressions is a good example of the problem that we face in the following way. The real cause of your facial movements is some set of emotion signals inside your brain. But then everything else that's going on could moderate that,. Could kind of tune it up or tune it down or somehow tweak what's going on, tweak the expression.
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