Is It a Good Idea to Send an Email? Or Is It a Bad Idea?

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I used to get angry when somebody would pass me on the free way, cause i like to go fast. And then some guy would blaze past me in him like whitis,. So from now on, whenever i get past coo, good, lucky me. That's what you that's the am expression. You're expressing the negative emotion privately or in a small group, where there can't be any consequences to the expression the negative emotion, right? Am, m m ye. Because that revenge emotion is pretty strong. It's probably there for a good reason. You know, you don't want to be taken advantage of. There's just enough free loaders and cheats and

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…