
240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Is Our Homicide Rate So Much Higher in Southern States Than Northern States?
In a reverse model, stimulation of something threatening or challenging generates stress hormones and physiological reactions. But it's ta chicken and egg question tht does that automatically change your physiological state? And then you interpret that as an emotion? Or when they bump you, do you have the emotion, and then thatand then that changes the physiological state? I think it goes a loop at both is, it's a loop, i think. And it depends on the situation very much, and culture.
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