BS 135 Lisa Barrett on How Emotions Are Made
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Implications of Affective Realism
Affective realism is making decisions based on our gut feelings. We can't help being affective realism because as Dr. Barrett's example of the baseball hitter demonstrates, we often have to make decisions before we have all the sensory data. Shooting an unarmed person when you see a gun that's not there is a sobering example of believing is seeing.
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