Decoding Emotions

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We like to think that all humans are born with the same core emotions: anger, fear, joy, sadness and disgust. But what if that's not true? This week, psychologist Batja Mesquita offers a different model of emotions — one that can help us to better understand our own feelings and those of the people around us.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:02.9	In the 2002 Ram Kham, my big fat Greek wedding,
0:06.7	an American woman of Greek ancestry,
0:09.2	falls in love with a very vanilla American man.
0:13.2	Tulia and Ian's different backgrounds become a parent
0:16.6	on one of their very first dates.
0:19.0	What do you do for Christmas with your family?
0:22.1	My mom makes Roseland.
0:24.3	And?
0:26.2	And?
0:28.3	I'm Greek, right?
0:30.3	So what happens is, my dad and my uncles,
0:33.0	they fight over who gets to eat the lamb brain.
0:35.2	And then my aunt Rula forks the eyeball
0:37.3	and chases me around with it, trying to get me to eat it
0:39.5	because it's going to make me smart.
0:44.3	Later, Ian invites his girlfriend over to meet his parents.
0:48.5	Rodney, didn't you want to have a Greek receptionist?
0:52.8	No, I'm not rich.
0:54.3	She was just a minute.
0:58.6	Oh no, no.
0:59.2	She was Armenian.
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