What's the Difference Between Ampathy and Squirrel and Rat?

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Historically too, you wonder, did people feel the same way? I don't know, 500 years ago, or ou think of these like witch burnings. Where was their ampathy circuit? Ah, is that just a twentieth century,. We we developed our ampathy, and they just didn't have it. And so the emotions were were the same, but theyre applied differently. Because you're what your brain is drawing from and making the decisions are your beliefs, your experiences, your culture. It's different because you grow up in a different 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…