Parenting and the Brain with Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Is It More Than Translation?
In the early days, you're translating as something has happened an now i'm going to translate that into some meaning. You know, physical signals like the rise of an eyebrow or the rasing of a heart have no inherent emotional meaning. We make them meaningful as emotions by the knowledge that we bring from our past to those signals. A racing heart could be many different instances of many different emotions, or not even an emotion at all. So you're doing more than translating. You're actually constructing.
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