Do we all experience emotion differently?

How has emotion changed over history, and in different cultures? How do people experience emotion - in the body, cognitively, as concepts, as colours?

Vynn and Francis discuss how different people, including themselves individually, experience emotion.

The conversation leads into the practical question of how it is best to experience emotion, and how that happens socially and in combination with rational thought.

This episode is a follow-up companion episode to the interview with philosopher Tom Cochrane about emotion in the previous episode.

Timestamps:

00:46 Experiments about emotions
03:30 History of emotion
08:51 Emotion in different cultures
10:52 Experiencing emotions in different ways
15:38 Cause of bodily feeling of sensations
18:57 Vynn's experience of emotion
22:29 Francis' experience of emotion
25:09 Desirability of feeling emotion in body more
28:12 Social reality of emotions
32:51 Emotional-rational complexes, practical tips

Show Links:

• “The Emotional Mind: A Control Theory of Affective States” - book by Tom Cochrane
• How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain - book by Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Critiques of Paul Ekman’s theory of facial expression of emotions - The Atlantic
• Professor Thomas Dixon’s research into history of emotion - website
• This kind of rosy yellow glow in my head - blog post introduction to Hurlburt
• Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears - book by Thomas Dixon

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