09 - Alan Fiske: The Problems with Labeling Emotions, And the Case for a New Emotion
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Why Words Are the Best Way to Capture an Emotion?
A o shall bring me back to the question, thos, why we are so focus on the idea of that, oh, words are the best way to describe an emotion? Well, i mean, part of it is an artifact of the nature of scholarly communication. There might be many translations of anger, but our word really captures what is going on here. Whereas others dar ate, their kind of approximations are like attempts at being as good as we are, but actually they're not. A why do you think do we half despise? Is it this motivational force that we want to feel better than others? Lict? Social identity theory stands always just a continent of mechanism
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