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“Bekoff is good at highlighting aspects of emotions that we often miss. For instance, he begins his book by talking about the fact that we tend to think of emotions as things that happen inside us, you know, maybe in the head, maybe in the heart, maybe in the gut, depending on where you localise them. But he says that this is exactly the wrong way to think about emotions. Emotions are not private, internal affairs; if anything, they are painfully public events. When I experience an emotion, I cannot but smile, I cannot but frown, I cannot but cringe. I become red with anger. Or I look like I have just seen a ghost. This public-ness suggests that emotions are not are not just for us, although they might be about us. They are ways of communicating. They’re fundamentally social.” Read more...
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