Emotions: What is Emotion?
Emotions chart the landscape of life. People know the words and the facial expressions that are distinctive to feelings like happiness, sadness, fear, anger. When we become emotional, our brain notices and our body reacts. A new view of emotion trea...
Virtue Ethics
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum explains what appeals to her about virtue ethics, as opposed to other ways of looking at moral choice. She mentions that it looks at human life as a whole, rather in terms of narrow moral parts. Professor Nussbaum also ap...
Deception
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about work he's done that can be used to help determine if someone is being deceptive. Dr. Ekman adds that part of his work in this area has to do with understanding why people lie, why some lies fail and oth...
What Are Emotions?
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about the characteristics of emotions. He also discusses how emotions are triggered, noting that, "...emotions are triggered without our being able to witness (the) process or really influence it very much."