Dr. Dacher Keltner
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first heard Apr 2026
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Yeah, no, I mean, it's a profound question, Andrew, and it's central to our field, which is, you know, and I appreciate it coming out of your scientific background of studying other mammals and other species.
And there are these motor patterns that you see in emotion around the world, right?
When you soothe a child that's crying, you're going to bring it in close and caress and touch and have emotion.
When you're fighting a rival or when you see rotten food, that motor pattern will be there.
And that's part of our research that 75% of that is this motor pattern of facial musculature and body and skeletal muscles and how we respond to the emotional events of life.
And then we have this massively complicated conceptual system that puts words to experience.
And that's mainly what we study in psychological science is just...
Oh, I'm feeling angry or ashamed or embarrassed or love or compassion.
And we know, and your question points to this, like very often they're disconnected, right?
The motor pattern and the language we use and how I would interpret it in another person.
On balance, they correlate 0.2, so they're just weakly.
They're kind of these streams of behavior that...
just part of who we are, right?
Our motor patterns and language.
And there are a lot of ways to think about it.
You could think about cultures that value being calm, like a lot of East Asian cultures.
Be calm, don't disrupt things, don't blurt out, don't protest, right?
And you'll see this disconnect.
You can think about certain people who...
They just are more authentic and their motor patterns come out in expressions and they will tell you how they feel.
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