Are emotions a social construct? | Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
00:00 Are emotions cultural or physiological?
11:31 Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett’s argument for emotion-via-culture
17:50 Why social construct theory is all the rage today
21:47 Rami’s thoughts on self-help psychology
27:41 Rami: Pets teach us that emotional connection predates language
38:04 What makes emotions adaptive to environment?
44:45 Stephen and Rami review the Jaak Panksepp Memorial Symposium
58:46 What neuroscientists say about the brain’s unpredictability
Stephen Asma (Columbia College Chicago, stephenasma.com, The Evolution of Imagination) and Rami Gabriel (Columbia College Chicago)
Recorded on April 29, 2018
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