250 - Awe - Dacher Keltner
You Are Not So Smart
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Ekman and Darwin's Introspection Illusion
The voice is incredible. We have a giant chunk of our brain that's oriented toward visual cognition and the face attracted so much attention, thanks to Ekman. And when you start to look across mammalian species, and Darwin wrote about this, there are incredible new studies of the vocalizations of horses and how they communicate. It tells us, contrary to a lot of assumptions, laughter, humor, awe, wonder, our fundamental human emotions as Renee Descartes has argued. So that's why we go get data and do crazy studies.
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