Emotions Are a Kind of Categorization

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We now view emotions as a kind of categoriation. For example, talked about fear and anxiety. Theyre they are different, but they're also eslt. But it's a spectrum. It is not a sharp delineation. You can youan you can cut it here or there. And that really illustrates a lot about the categoriation of emotion in general. Emotion is more like color. You go from blue at one end to red at the other end.

xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.

Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…