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Is there any evidence those labels aren't a product of linguistics and culture? Two things developed during childhood that Disney is working to profit from? Did
by olewhalehunter 11y ago
Is there any evidence those labels aren't a product of linguistics and culture? Two things developed during childhood that Disney is working to profit from? Did those professionals grow up watching Disney movies?
- isolate 11y agoThe labels are based on experiments and are cross-cultural.
- olewhalehunter 11y agoAre you insinuating those cross-cultural experiments predate the institutions of culture and language that produced them? Sounds a bit like time travel.
- isolate 11y agoThey looked at people's facial expressions, it wasn't based on self-reporting of emotion. The subjects were treated as animals in a biology experiment. You can look it up easily enough, the guy's name is Silvan Tomkins and the work is known as "affect theory".