Emotions

Invisibilia

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A thief knocks down your door and you are flooded with fear. Your baby smiles up at you and you are filled with love. It feels like this is how emotions work: something happens, and we instinctively respond. How could it be any other way? Well, the latest research in psychology and neuroscience shows that's not in fact how emotions work. We offer you a truly mind-blowing alternative explanation for how an emotion gets made. And we do it through a bizarre lawsuit, in which a child dies in a car accident, and the child's parents get sued by the man driving the other car.

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0:00.0	There are people who discover new planets,
0:02.0	there are people who discover new birds, new flowers.
0:05.6	But until Hannah and I talked to the anthropologist,
0:07.9	Renato Rosaldo, I'd never talked to anyone
0:10.8	who had discovered a new emotion.
0:13.2	I honestly didn't even know that was a thing.
0:15.6	What is the name of the emotion that you discovered?
0:18.4	Legate.
0:19.3	Legote.
0:20.2	Legate.
0:21.2	Legote.
0:22.7	Yes.
0:24.1	So it's le got almost like got your stomach right?
0:29.9	Legate.
0:30.8	OK.
0:32.3	For a small group of communities in the Philippines,
0:35.1	this emotion of legged was central.
0:38.8	One of the most important feelings in their culture.
0:42.0	But legged is not like anger or joy or fear.
0:46.9	The emotions that pretty easily cross cultural borders.
0:50.4	No.
0:51.2	Legate was way more complicated and disquieting and intense.
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