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240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

The Michael Shermer Show

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Darwin's Theory of Emotions

Darwin thought that in the human world they were a vestige. We don't really need them any more, because we have language and rational reasoning. But scientists have found he's wrong on almost all counts. For example, fear is not just one emotion - there are many different types of it. And anger is much more complicated than you might first think.

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