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Mar 2023
1h 17m

Episode 135: The Science of Emotion

JAMES FODOR
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An introduction to the scientific study of emotion, including a discussion of the difficulties in defining emotions, discrete and dimensional methods of classifying emotions, the functional and representational roles of emotions, and an overview of major psychological theories of emotion, including the James-Lange and Cannon-Bard theories. We also examine th ... Show More
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