To Read Emotion, Don't Look, Listen.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
As the world goes digital, we yearn for more tactile experiences. And, in our Good Life Science news, if you want to be a human emotion detector, don't look...listen.
Good Life Riff: As the world has gone digital, we feel pain. Sure, there are benefits to an electronic existence, but truth is, we are wired to experience life in a more tactile, touch-driven way. Pinching, sliding and tapping screens doesn't cut it. We need to touch, create, make and build with our hands, bodies and tools, working with materials in three-dimension. Right now, that need is going largely unfilled. But, there's a counter-movement afoot to take that back. We call it The Touch Economy. That's what we're exploring in today's GLP Riff.
Good Life Science: And, in our Good Life Science segment, we're diving into some fascinating new research on how we pick up on the emotions of those around us. For years, the emphasis on been on seeing faces, decoding expressions and micro-expressions. Turns out, new research shows our ears may be a much better tool for understanding what's really going on inside the heads of those around us. That's what we're talking about in today's GLP Science Update. And, as always, for those want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, fantastic, awesome, humans, it's Jonathan Fields coming to you with two days Good |
| 0:08.4 | Life Project update where we blend a couple of different segments together, generally a |
| 0:14.2 | riff and a Good Life Science update, which is what we've got on tap for you today. |
| 0:19.9 | In our riff, I'll be talking about something that I call the touch economy. |
| 0:25.7 | I have no idea if that phrase has ever been used before, but it's just kind of the phrase |
| 0:31.0 | that I use to describe our intrinsic need to be tactile in the world, and it's something |
| 0:38.2 | that I think we're coming back to. |
| 0:40.5 | We're also diving into some pretty fascinating research, and that is research about how |
| 0:48.9 | listening versus seeing actually allows us to pick up emotion. |
| 0:55.2 | Really excited to share these riffs and science updates with you on Jonathan Fields, and |
| 1:01.2 | this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:07.8 | And we're back with today's riff. |
| 1:09.8 | I want to talk to you about this thing that I call the touch economy, and this has been |
| 1:14.7 | on my mind for years now. |
| 1:17.0 | We see so much of the world moving into the space of being digital. |
| 1:23.6 | You know, it's funny. |
| 1:25.6 | We were out of the city the other weekend, and we're hanging out at a coffee shop, and |
| 1:31.7 | on a table in the coffee shop, there was this old rotary phone, and I'm hanging out with |
| 1:36.4 | it. |
| 1:37.4 | It was me, my wife, and my 16-year-old daughter. |
| 1:39.9 | And we look at the phone, and we're kind of trying to describe how the phone worked |
| 1:45.8 | to my daughter, which is like this kind of foreign bizarre thing, and it becomes pretty clear |
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