09 - Alan Fiske: The Problems with Labeling Emotions, And the Case for a New Emotion
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Is There a Scientific Definition of Anger?
There is no definition that is not contest andyesngr, nature of definitions to be contested. It's a kind of futile exercise to argue about what is anger, because anger is an english word. You can't argue about what disgust is, except, you except, the only answer to that is whow t people use it. But you can argue about what camamuta is, because it's a scientific construct. What it is corresponds only very approximately to any particular word or set of words in any particular language. And one of the illustrations in that article is a bluebird, right? And if we argue about what bluebirds are and what they eat, and, you know
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