Emotions
Description
Where do emotions come from, and why do we experience them? Is there a connection between reason and emotion? In this program, host Michael Mosley uses vintage footage and his own willingness to be a test subject to review classic and sometimes disturbing experiments on the nature of fear, love, and empathy. The discussion includes John B. Watson's tests on 9-month-old "Little Albert," in which the infant was conditioned to feel fear; António Damásio's findings on gambling, logic, and decision-making; and the work that Harry Harlow did with monkeys and their surrogate mothers that helped change thinking about the value of cuddling a newborn baby.
Runtime
50 min
Series
Subjects
- Psychobiology (216)
- Learning, Psychology of (143)
- Brain (487)
- Psychology (828)
- Memory (177)
- Child development (475)
- Patients (117)
- Emotions (140)
- Neurophysiology (78)
- Social psychology (195)
- Motivation (Psychology) (179)
- Developmental psychology (215)
- Legal ethics (13)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2011], c2010
Database
Films on Demand
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