Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Apr 2026
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And, and I was like, wow, there's all this stuff that our science, my science can't speak to music and visual patterns.
And, and,
dance and collective movement and you know someone like martin luther king and why he makes me cry you know and i remember feeling this and asking paul ekman i was like you know what should i do with my career and he's like study all you know and so that got me going
Yeah, thank you for asking that.
You know, I spent 30 years working on that very problem.
Paul Ekman came in and, you know, as you've suggested, right, he did this revolutionary work in New Guinea, you know, showed photos of six emotions, static photographs of anger, fear, sadness, disgust, surprise, and a smile.
They kind of interpreted the faces like you or I would, naming it, using the right words to describe those faces.
And that...
You know, and this is how science occasionally works, which is just by accident that became the field.
And there are a lot of debates about how reliable those faces are, how universal are they in different cultures.
Ekman really posited sort of a strong universality.
That's been contested by Jim Russell, Lisa Feldman Barrett and others.
But since then...
There are controversies around how hardwired they are.
Do they occur reliably in a child's development?
Yes and no.
You know, young children show disgust expressions like social mammals do.
They wince at bad smells just like you or I would.
Anger is a little bit trickier to pin down developmentally.
But then our lab and several labs around the world, you know, Jess Tracy at UB British Columbia, Adisa Sauter,
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