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>I think the article slightly overstates the learned aspect of emotions in that there are some emotions that are hard wired in various ways (that even babies ex
by woodandsteel 9y ago
>I think the article slightly overstates the learned aspect of emotions in that there are some emotions that are hard wired in various ways (that even babies express in similar ways)
My understanding, as from Ekman, is that there are stereotypes expressions of a number of basic emotions, but that these get covered over and replaced for various reasons as children grow up.
- joveian 9y agoI would expect there to still be cases where novel situations could trigger hard wired emotions at any point in life. But maybe there is convincing research against that idea. Ekman's fairly recently published book "Nonverbal Messages" sounds interesting.
- woodandsteel 9y ago> would expect there to still be cases where novel situations could trigger hard wired emotions at any point in life. I agree. I should have said the primary expression often gets modified or covered up, and not implied it always does.