Neuroscientist Answers Emotion Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Neuroscientist and Psychologist Dr. Richard J. Davidson joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about our emotions. Are men truly less emotional than women? Can stress cause your brain to shrink? What are chemical imbalances and what do they do to our emotions? Why do we have emotions at all? Dr. Davidson answers these questions and more on Emotion Support.

Dr. Richard J. Davidson is the founder of Healthy Minds Innovations and The Center For Healthy Minds.

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Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Christopher Eustache
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Dr. Richard Davidson
Creative Producer: Justin Wolfson
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Caleb Weiss
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds

0:00 Emotion Support is here for you
0:14 Stress causes shrinkage?
0:32 Are women really more sensitive and emotional than men?
1:05 Feelings: Why?
1:54 Botox
2:59 Come on, chemicals
4:14 Are autistic individuals hypersensitive to emotions?
5:00 That feeling in your gut
5:40 Can I turn them off?
7:04 The internet and our emotional state
8:07 Cringe
8:52 How many emotions are there?
10:59 Why is smiling contagious?
11:50 Meditation and the brain
13:01 me need be smarter
14:08 Can I borrow a feeling?
15:23 Emotional maturity etc.
16:24 Laughter
17:40 HI WHY AM I SO MAD
18:45 What is love? (Baby don’t hurt me)

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21 thoughts on “Neuroscientist Answers Emotion Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

  1. wow i didnt know elliot gould was a neuroscientist too. Truly a man of many minds!

    i do genuinly want to this man to know how aggresively he looks like current day elliot gould.

  2. I think that the squares and normies who say society is “overmedicated” are in actuality, just undermedicated themselves and therefore are either not aware of what they are missing or are just jealous that they aren’t “hip”.

  3. This Dr. is such breath of fresh air – not a common big Pharma affiliate, but a true scientist and truth teller.

  4. I have Anxiety just thinking about going outside for food/snacks😅. Even the thought of driving to get to any location.

  5. I’m suspicious whenever experts talk about between-group vs. within group measurements. He says that there’s much more difference between men in terms of emotion than there is between men and women, in an effort to downplay that difference. However, that’s obvious. If we said there’s more difference in height between men than there is between men and women, that’s also obvious, but we would still have no trouble saying that men on average are taller than women. They make these same points when it comes to things like IQ and the like; anything that is immutable makes people uncomfortable because they don’t like differences. We are not blank slates. Not everything is environment. We have natures. I just don’t understand why people try to downplay these statements, as if we can know nothing about the world.

  6. So much of the “gender-based traits” have more to do with socialization of a person than their biological/neurological cues anyway

  7. We _should_ try cognitive therapy and other non-chemical methods, first, before resorting to chemicals. But making drugs is far cheaper than training more people to be therapists. And our for-profit healthcare system doesn’t want to pay more people to be therapists.

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