Lisa Feldman Barrett joins us for a far-reaching discussion on the science of emotions: in the battle between thoughts and feelings, which determines human behaviour? 

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LISA FELDMAN BARRETT

“People love novelty when it comes to food and clothes etc, except when it comes to each other. When it comes to other people, humans tend to gravitate to similarity, to people who love the same way they do, behave in predictable ways or, or have the same beliefs and values”

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