Doctor Mike

They tend to also, there's a lot of the salience of negative versus positive emotions.

The intensity depends on the individual and it's almost certainly highly genetic.

So you're going to see it in particular cultures more than others.

You're going to see more intense emotionality, more intense affect.

And I do have a whole test I give on that about the emotional affect profile that people have.

There are some people who are high negative intensity and low positive intensity.

There's vice versa.

There's high negative and positive, and there's low positive and negative.

And those are the four profiles that people actually have.

And so what you find is in Spain, for example, or I presume Russia, certainly if you go to Israel, all over South America, people are high intensity positive and high intensity negative.

It's a culture of mad scientists, effectively, right?

And so it's just like daggers drawn all the time and fuses blown at the slightest provocation.

Whereas you go to other places where they're very low affect cultures, where there's not very much yelling and there's not that much arguing in relationships.

Those are low, low.

Those are called judge cultures, whereas low positive and low negative affect cultures.

is what you find.

Surgeons tend to be really good.

Judges make good surgeons, for example, because you don't want really, really high effect surgeons.

You don't want somebody to cut you open and go, oh my God, there's blood.

You want somebody to be like, I can take that out.