Emotions 2.0: When I Feel What You Feel

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week, we kick off our new series, Emotions 2.0, with a special double episode about the emotions we experience with other people. We often think that emotions like happiness or sadness live inside our individual minds. But if you've ever gone to a music concert in a big stadium or attended a political rally with like-minded voters, you know that emotions can move through crowds in powerful ways. We begin with psychologist Amit Goldenberg, who studies how emotions spread and ratchet up in intensity as more people experience them. Then, we bring you a favorite 2022 conversation with anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas, who takes us inside the world of fire walking to explore the emotional power of rituals.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.6	In 1965, Mark Rudd was an 18-year-old freshman at Columbia University in New York. America's military involvement in Vietnam was ramping up. At first, Mark wasn't
0:18.0	interested in much beyond his studies, but before long he was drawn in by the passion of his politically engaged peers.
0:27.6	He would later write, over beers or a joint, I'd listen to discussions about China's
0:32.1	cultural revolution, then just starting,
0:34.4	and to Cuba's seven-year-old revolution.
0:40.0	It was thrilling to be with these people who were tapping into something so much bigger than ourselves,
0:45.0	something so grand, so historic,
0:48.0	remaking the world. By the time he was 20 he had been elected chairman of the Columbia chapter of
0:58.2	Students for a Democratic Society or SDS. In 1968, he led the student occupation of several university buildings.
1:07.0	He called his parents, exhilarated.
1:09.0	We took a building, he exclaimed.
1:12.0	Well, give it back, his father told him.
1:18.0	But Mark was drawn deeper into radicalism.
1:21.0	Along with some friends, he formed a revolutionary band known as
1:25.7	the weather underground. The group sought to violently overthrow the government and
1:29.8	instigated a string of bombings.
1:36.0	The violence gave Mark pause, but he felt compelled to continue.
1:40.0	I felt like a member of the crew on a speeding train, dimly aware of disaster ahead, but unable
1:45.6	to put on the brakes, he would later recall. Decades later,
1:55.0	later, Mark Rudd said he had feelings of guilt and shame about his actions.
1:59.8	He told a pair of documentary filmmakers, these are things that I am not proud of.
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