#1078 Debra Lieberman: The Psychology of Disgust, Gratitude, and Emotional Tears
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopson, and today I'm joined by Doctor Deborah Liberman. She's professor and has served as Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs Research in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. She's also the author of a book. objection, disgust, morality and the law. And today we're going to talk about uh from an evolutionary perspective of course about emotions disgust gratitude and emotional tears. So Dr. Lieberman, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone.
Thank you very much. It's great to be here. So let me start perhaps with a more with a broader, more general question. So From an evolutionary perspective, how do you approach emotions? What are emotions? And you personally do you approach them as adaptations or as something else? That's a great
Place to start. So My perspective on emotions is that they are programs. They are somehow kind of neurally instantiated algorithms that help guide behavior. I don't see them as
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