What Are Emotions? Part I

After a short discussion about the upcoming presidential election in the United States and the new data about how Jewish Americans will be voting, Jeff and Eli dive into their next topic which is the empirical study of emotions. Starting with the foundational 19th century texts by Charles Darwin and William James, they move into the 20th century and discuss the two dominant ways of thinking about emotion and their adherents in Experimental Psychology, Anthropology, and Evolutionary Psychology.Show Notes:To read about Jewish Americans voting preferences in the upcoming election, click/tap here. To read Darwin’s book The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals, click/tap here.To read James’s essay What is An Emotion? click/tap here.To learn about Paul Ekman’s work click/tap here.