Emma Levine
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594 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Emma Levine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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listener kind of sees through what you're doing, recognizing that omission is kind of a way out.
And what they want some of the time is reassurance or comfort or positivity or happiness.
So when they ask, isn't my baby beautiful?
And you...
Turn away or change the subject.
They know what you're thinking.
And now, right, you've both prevented them from hearing the truth and you prevented them from meeting some other social goal, like feeling good and feeling loved.
And so it's actually not a compromise.
Sometimes it's the worst of both because it robs someone of both benevolence or kindness and honesty.
Interesting.
I think there's two elements to that question, both of which I've done some research on, but in somewhat separate veins.
So there's the fact that these service personnel are often fibbing about their feelings.
They're misrepresenting how they feel.
So when we think about lying about our feelings, we tend to think that that's more acceptable than lying about material fact.
Right.
It's more acceptable to smile really big when you hand somebody a entree that's mediocre rather than say this entree is the most amazing entree in the world.
Right.
Just the fact that it's nonverbal makes it seem more acceptable.
So I think that gives this type of behavior some leeway.
And in fact, we often perceive those who can lie about their feelings in terms of misrepresenting their emotion, we see them as higher in kind of cognitive and emotional control, higher in grit.
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