David Pizarro

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7,204 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

David Pizarro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Very Bad Wizards · Episode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom) · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

Um, the question that they were trying to answer was whether there was universal recognition. podcast-host

Of emotional expressions. podcast-host

So when I smile or when I frown or when I make a disgust face, we all in our Western culture. podcast-host

understand exactly what emotion we're communicating, or most of us do. podcast-host

Is this because it's something learned, or is this just a feature of our human evolution? podcast-host

And one way to answer this question would be to go to a culture that did not have exposure to all of the images and communication, TV shows, movies, magazines that would have had these emotional expressions, and see if they also both generated the same emotional expressions. podcast-host

emotions when told to look sad or when told a sad story um, and whether or not they recognized those emotions as expressions of these emotions. podcast-host

What he ended up coming up with was a list of five at the time. podcast-host

Five or six. podcast-host

Um podcast-host

Yeah, yeah. podcast-host

Contempt, contempt. podcast-host

And she got the six years. podcast-host

Oh I'm surprised, that's right. podcast-host

Right. podcast-host

So using this sort of forced choice method where he would ask participants in in New Guinea which image best described what somebody would be showing, you know, if their child died or if, you know, something good happened. podcast-host

What he found was that just as well like as in any other culture, these participants recognize these emotions. podcast-host

Not without controversy. podcast-host

There's been a lot of criticism about these particular methods and what it shows. podcast-host

Yeah. podcast-host

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