Why Is Our Homicide Rate So Much Higher in Southern States Than Northern States?

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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.

xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.

Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…