The New Science Of Emotions, Anxiety & Brain Health - Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett - #987
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How unique is the way that we all experience emotions? Is your experience of anxiety or anger or joy the same as mine or different? Well, I think the proper question to start with is your experience of joy on one occasion exactly the same as your experience of joy on another occasion? And I think what we know is the answer is no, it isn't. that joy or anger or any other word for emotion really refers to a population of instances that are variable, not infinitely variable, but variable and tied to the situation that you're in.
So sometimes anger is pleasant and sometimes it's unpleasant. Sometimes it's, you know, you're full of energy during anger and other times you're not. Sometimes your blood pressure goes up, sometimes it goes down, sometimes it stays the same, depending on what actions you're taking. And your actions differ in anger, right? People scowl in anger about 35% of the time, which is more than chance.
But that means 65% of the time people express anger in this culture, in western cultures, actually I should say in urban cultures, because it's in the east and the west. um that this is um meta-analytic evidence um 65% of the time you're doing something else with your face in anger you know you might smile in anger you might cry in anger you might sit silently and plot the demise of your enemy in anger and half the time when you scowl you're not angry you're feeling something else So the point being that, you know, all this variation is not random, but it's not um, but it's not, you know, anger isn't one thing, joy isn't one thing. So when you ask the question, is your experience of joy the same as mine? I think what you mean is to say
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