Lisa Feldman Barrett - Your Emotions Aren't What You Think
Mind & Life
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Are You More Responsible Because You Have More Control Than You Think You Do?
Ideas about emotion, at least western ideas, you can trace all the way back to ancient greece. So emotions were seen as a sort of inner ancient beast that has to be controlled in order to be virtuous and moral. And so for people who are within the same cu like americans, that kind of a short hand understanding of fear can often work, right? Cause we all culturally agree. I think it's a faustian bargain, actually.
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