Emotions in Historical Documents
This post first appeared on the blog for the Centre for Privacy Studies: https://privacy.hypotheses.org/395 La conduite des filles de joie à la Salpêtrière : le passage près de la porte Saint-Bernard Étienne Jeaurat (1699 - 1789) "Jurors do not and cannot detect remorse or any other emotion in anybody, ever. Neither can I and neither can you. And that's because emotions are not what we think they are." This straightforward statement introduces the TED talk You Aren't at the Mercy of your Emotions--Your Brain Creates Them , by Lisa Feldman Barrett, neuroscientist, psychologist, and professor at Northwestern University (and one of my nerdy heroes!) I first got to know Barrett's work back in 2017 when I read How Emotions Are Made (a book that covers the TED talk topics in more detail). I picked up her book after reading Patricia Churchland’s Braintrust and A.D. (Bud) Craig’s How do You Feel? . Having been captivated for years by the study of emotions—as an actor