[Xmca-l] Re: Questioning universal core emotions

[Joseph Gilbert]

Regarding core emotions:
First, what are emotions? How do emotions relate to feelings? I have  
found that the phones correlate to, represent and convey/transmit  
feelings-emotions. The emotional relevance of the phones can be  
experienced by voicing them over and over. We normally do not notice  
that relatedness between phones and feelings-emotions because we  
almost never vocalize unless we are verbalizing, and when we are  
verbalizing, we are focused on the referential function of words  
There is a de-facto prohibition against simply vocalizing, in public  
and in private also. Doing so "rattles the cage" of our reliance on  
the sounds of words to inform us of the effects on us - and hence,  
the meanings of - the things that make up our world. Breaking words  
down into separate sounds shines a light on the fact that the sounds  
of words do not necessarily represent the things to which we refer  
with them in our familiar language.

		Joseph Carroll Gilbert

On May 4, 2014, at 6:16 AM, mike cole wrote:

> Perhaps of interest
> mike
>
> http://www.psypost.org/2014/03/the-six-universal-facial-expressions- 
> are-not-universal-cross-cultural-study-shows-23471