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BS 199: Batja Mesquita on Cultural Origins of Emotion

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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How Important Are Your Emotions?

Japanese people in general, to start with, don't focus on their inside feelings. To then ask a quality of those inside feelings, how intense it is, was just not the right question. What self report looks at is a way of meaning making in the world in a context. And why not take that meaning making seriously when we talk to other people?

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