Human Emotion
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The History of Emotions
Some people assume that emotions are always unchanging, they're always the same. But how we understand that feeling has this huge cultural weight on it. And of course, if it's got a cultural weight, then it changes through history as well. It's not as obvious as it seems. Because we think of emotions as being, it's a really primitive part of ourselves and emotions are often things that you can't articulate. You would argue that those things are not constant. They're not necessarily constant. No, there's a big debate amongst researchers right now. There's something called the amygdala hypothalamus, pariaquatic core. Which is of all to do with anger and yeah
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