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As we will not have enough time to cover all the WOKs, we will start using the padlet as a means of including them in our class discussion.

Ekman's atlas aims to equip you with a vocabulary of emotions.  After exploring the Atlas, consider the power of emotion over a range of everyday decisions.  How might emotion be informative as a way of knowing.

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About

Paul Ekman is an American psychologist who is a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He has gained a reputation as "the best human lie detector in the world". Eve Ekman is currently a Post Doctoral Scholar at UCSF's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Ekman's research interests were inspired by her experience as a medical social worker in the emergency department of San Francisco General Hospital coupled with her training in the applied emotion regulation and mindfulness intervention: Cultivating Emotional Balance, CEB.

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Additional Resources

Here are some of the publications that guided us, or that you might be interested in seeking out to learn more.

Personality Trait

Each emotion has a corresponding personality trait that represents a longer term manifestation of an emotion.

Psychopathology

Each emotion relates to distinct psychopathologies, which describe a persistent behavior that interferes with one's ability to function.

Signal and Message

Description of what signals are

Partially-Charted Emotions

Half or less than half of emotion scientists believe there is convincing evidence that each of the following is an emotion.

The Scientific Basis For This Work

The Emotions Atlas is based on the consensus among scientists (in the choice of the five emotion continents and the relationship of emotions to moods, personality and psychopathology), the work of a few scientists who focused on the naming of states within emotions, dictionary definitions in the glossary, and theory or best guesses about the actions for each state and whether they are constructive or destructive. For more information, see "What Emotion Scientists Agree About", by Paul Ekman Perspectives in Psychological Science, in press.

Emotional Episode Timeline

Impediments and Antidotes

Here are some ways to counteract emotional states. Impediments apply to blocking a positive emotion, antidotes apply to reversing negative ones.

Intrinsic or Intentional?

Actions can be intrinsic (take place without intent) or intentional (active attempt to enact change) or both.

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The Atlas of Emotion is a tool to help people better understand what emotions are, how they are triggered and what their effects are, and how to become aware of emotions before acting on them.

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After watching the video, write a comment connecting Kuhl's talk with ideas about language as a WOK.

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Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.

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Is there some unique form of knowledge through perception that cannot be learned any other way?

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Mary's Room: A philosophical thought experiment - Eleanor Nelsen

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In our discussion of the WOK of reason, this dilemma shows reason does not always get first priority

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Week 4: Logic - Informal Fallacies - Begging the Question

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Week 4: Logic - Informal Fallacies - Begging the Question

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Consider how this informal fallacy is often used.

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Week 4: Logic - Informal Fallacies - Ad Hominem

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Week 4: Logic - Informal Fallacies - Ad Hominem

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Consider how this informal fallacy is frequently used in modern media debates and discussions

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CRITICAL THINKING - Fallacies: Ad Hominem [HD]