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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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Emotions - The Origins of Subcortical Emotion

Lisa feldman barrett challenges the idea that emotions are something innate and universal. Barrett debunks much of the presumed evidence for universal, innate emotions. This is important because this forms the basis for things like lie detector tests. Here is a simple example of how this assumption fails.

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