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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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In the Chaos of Uh Emotions

i don't know about a term that's just flying around on social media what's um well actually you think it is it is emotion in the following sense. When your brain when things are chaotic you can't predict what's going to happen next so i have this absolutely brilliant scientist working in my lab his name is um jordan terryo and he's published this really terrific paper on a sense of should like why do we have social rules? If i make myself predictable to you then you are predictable to me and if you're predictable to me that's good for me novelty or unpredictability at the extreme is expensive, according to psychologist David Perry.

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