What is emotion? How’s it different from feelings? How do different people experience it?
Vynn and Francis interview philosopher Tom Cochrane, author of “The Emotional Mind: A Control Theory of Affective States”, about emotion.
They unpick the sometimes confusing academic words on this topic, such as affect and valence.
How does the way the brain is a prediction machine relate to emotion? Are emotions social? What is the impact of different clothes, locations or music on emotion? What is the state of scientific experiments about emotion?
This episode has a follow-up companion episode, where Vynn and Francis talk more widely about our varying experience of emotion.
Timestamps:
00:42 Definitions - emotion, feelings, affect, valence
09:24 Meditation used to increase attention
11:21 Valent (positive/negative) representation
17:30 Predictive processing
20:03 Emotions!
26:08 Social emotions
29:38 Varying experience of emotion - bodily, cognitive, colours
33:55 Expressing emotion with clothes, music, writing
36:16 Science behind emotions - experiments
Show Links:
- “The Emotional Mind: A Control Theory of Affective States” - book by Tom Cochrane
- “Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it” - video with Lisa Feldman Barrett
- “The Emotional Power of Music” - book by Tom Cochrane
- “A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis” - Nature Human Behaviour
- Tom Cochrane on Twitter - @doctorcochrane
- Tom’s Website - All Writings
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