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Are we a slave to our emotions?

RSA Conversations

CHAPTER

Are We All the Same Emotions?

Richard Dawkins: We all have the same emotions. He says we need to think about what is going on at the collective level in terms of the manipulation of emotions. But he adds that it's important for us not to continuously react in ways which take us to places we don't want to go. 'We evolved keepers alive, running away from the bear in the bush is a case in point'

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