Episode 22: Chiplessness – Making New Emotions

Steve leads the charge on this episode which discusses the idea of “chiplessness”, offered to us through the book How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett. We meander around the topic of emotions as per usual, and eventually declare that dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.

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This episode was edited by DamJankostovski.

References

• How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
• The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
• Emotional Granularity
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
• Here’s just one example of tricking people with wine pomp.
• Sommelier
• Cupping (coffee; not Chinese medicine)
• Dramaturgy (Sociological sense)
• “The Gallant Gallstone” is from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Correction: Phil said that Ayn Rand died in public housing. This isn’t correct. The truth is that she received social security and medicaid, things she saw as an immoral redistribution of wealth.
• Pluralistic Ignorance – “a situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but go along with it because they assume, incorrectly, that most others accept it.”
• Naive Realism – the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or biased.
• Social Construction – The theory centers on the notion that meanings are developed in coordination with others rather than separately within each individual.
• Fiat Currency – Fiat money does not have intrinsic value and does not have use value. It has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value.
• Paul Ekman – His work on microexpressions was the basis of Lie to Me and has not been supported by further research.
• Schadenfreude – the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another.
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter
• Steve references as study on the presentation of anger
• Four Stages of Competence
  • Unconscious Incompetence (Dunning-Kruger Effect)
  • Conscious Incompetence (the most powerful position)
  • Conscious Competence
  • Unconscious Competence
• Apparently the story behind subtitles and language acquisition is more complicated than Phil let on.
• Steve exaggerated about Canadian’s French; Canadians generally have ~5 years of mandatory French (Grade 4-9), depending on province.
• Tim Ferriss’ Language Hack
• Two-factor Theory of Emotion – when an emotion is felt, a physiological arousal occurs and the person uses the immediate environment to search for emotional cues to label the physiological arousal.
• Excited vs Nervous (not quite what Phil was talking about, but related)
• Affect
• Doubting Thomas
• Pascal’s Wager – “If God does not actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas if God does exist, he stands to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell).”
• Positive Affirmations Don’t Work
• “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.” –Stuart Smalley