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BS 199: Batja Mesquita on Cultural Origins of Emotion

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Are Your Emotions a Good Idea?

I think looking at your internal feeling is useful to the extent that your preferences or your choices come from those, from your emotions. So if i want to make a decision based on how i feel, then it's interesting to have that introspection about how i feel. Your own feelings may tell you something also about how you stand in the world, or what your relationship is in the world. Being sad or being anxious, or being jealous are certainly interesting feelings to be able to distinguish,. In that they tell you what about that world is important. I don't think feelings are useless. I think feelings are also useful, and they're telling you things. But i think that what they're

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