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Forget What You Think You Know About Emotions Every few months, a family friend pays a visit, and I must be reminded to let her conspiracy theorizing pass unchallenged. “Don’t get drawn in,” I’m told. “Just say, ‘Oh, really? That’s interesting,’ and wait for the friend to lose steam and shift the subject elsewhere.” I repeatedly find this instruction impossible to follow. When the claims come that humans have had bases on Mars since the 1970s, and of course aliens can travel faster than light to reach us on Earth because they know how to move at the “speed of thought,” I feel an argumentative energy surge through me. In exasperation, my words take on a more forceful tone than I intended. Then I feel bad for not being able to hold back my frustration. Yet again it gets the better of me! But is that really how emotions work?
“It can certainly feel like emotions happen to you: that they bubble up and that they cause you to do and say things that are maybe ill-advised,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett in a recent Big Think interview. “But that explanation doesn’t really capture how your brain is making emotions.”
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