11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

Update: 2014-03-21

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This class is an introduction to the evolutionary analysis of human emotions, how they work, why they exist, and what they communicate. In particular, this lecture discusses three interesting case studies, that of happiness (e.g., smiling), fear and the emotions we feel towards our relatives. Finally, this lecture ends with a brief discussion of babies' emotional responses to their caregivers.

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Lecture 20 - The Good Life: Happiness

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19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II

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18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I

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17 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter

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16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I

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15 - A Person in the World of People: Morality

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14 - What Motivates Us: Sex

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13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences

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12 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II

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11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

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10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality

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09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love

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08 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)

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07 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory

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06 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands

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05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

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04 - Foundations: Skinner

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03 - Foundations: Freud

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02 - Foundations: This is Your Brain

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01 - Introduction

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11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

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11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

Paul Bloom

11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I