240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a Culture Binding Concept of Emotions?
Lisa feldman barrett says that the naming or categoriation of emotion is culture dependent. She thinks there are no conceptually universal emotions in human nature, if i'm characterizing that right? And so and that that supports her belief tat these categoriations are somewhat artificial, right? Well, kawit. The original, like darwinian idea was that these categories themselves are hard wired into our brain so that we will have the same expression for each person. But lisa does not believe in that. She thinks that there's a millions, or an infinite amount of rent kinds of fear. So that it's really a question of how universal they can be
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