308. Iris Berent — The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature
The Michael Shermer Show
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Do You Think That Emotions Are Inherent?
People intuitively believe that emotions are in the face, right? Or in the body. And if you think that what innate is in the body, then therefore you would be prone to saying that emotions are innate. So we've done the studies and that's exactly what we found: people believe that facial emotions are innate - but they're not universal. In fact, if you tell them, scientists believe that emotions were really learned, people still insist that emotions are informal. Evolutionary psychologists claim to my mind sensibly that there you have no reason to make these assumptions. Why you should broadcast all your emotions and in fact you have good reasons to try to hide them. You
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