Second That Emotion

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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So you weep at sappy commercials and give drivers the bird. Have no regrets: emotion is what makes us human! Discover the survival value in feeling disgust … why humans are terrible liars … and how despair fuels creativity. Also, mis-firing emotions and the emotional consequences of facial paralysis. And why E.T. will need to feel fear and joy to survive. Guests: Rachel Herz - Psychologist, author of That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion Paul Ekman - Psychologist, professor emeritis, University of California, San Francisco Kathleen Bogart - Psychologist, Tufts University Gordy Slack - Science writer Jonah Lehrer - Author of Imagine: How Creativity Works Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	The world is constantly changing and transforming.
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0:25.7	That's What's New With Wired, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.4	The corporate world is like the ocean.
0:32.4	It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces.
0:36.5	It becomes kind of like a game of thrones political arena where everyone's trying to murder you to get your job.
0:42.9	My family doesn't come from corporate backgrounds,
0:44.8	so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that.
0:47.1	This is not your typical work podcast.
0:49.3	Sometimes you need to be empathetic.
0:51.0	And then there are times that you ask for input but you don't really
0:53.4	give a shit.
0:54.4	Listen to the and the award-nominated podcast, Surfing Corporate.
0:57.8	Stretch opportunity.
0:58.8	What is it?
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1:00.8	Seth, I put in front of you the opening paragraph of one of your favorite books do you recognize it?
1:04.6	Yeah I do this is or the world's h-G wells that's right now what I'd like you to do if you're
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