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Hot-Cold Empathy Gap
- Humans struggle to predict their behavior in different emotional states.
- This "hot-cold empathy gap" affects our sympathy for others and ourselves.
A Whole Different Person
- Warren Zevon's song lyric "You're a whole different person when you're scared" rings true.
- Human cognition changes drastically depending on emotional and visceral states.
Anger and Reason
- Aristotle discussed how anger, like hasty slaves or barking dogs, mishears reason.
- Anger, driven by warmth and hastiness, reacts before fully understanding.