01:920:240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Inside Out Music, Paul Ekman, The Emotions
11 Mar 2016
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A state of mind associated with particular kinds of feelings and physiological states: we know when we"re happy/sad/jealous, emotions are associated with some kind of feeling also with a physiological action. Different emotions lead to different kinds of hormones arising, different kinds of bodily states as well as mental states. Emotions are very different than thought: part of our mind and brain, if thought is thought to be a slow, steady turtle, emotions are the fast rabbit, emotions arise automatically. Emotions: automatic, unreflective, involuntary: we cannot plan out emotions. Disputed: some say lots, some say few. Darwin pioneered the study of emotions (1871: darwin published a book about human emotions; less popular than his theory of evolution, but still important. He sees a snake and is afraid of the snake. His will and reasoning were powerless against the imagination of a danger that had never been experienced. he tried to control his emotions and he couldn"t do it.
