I’m not convinced that the Ekman’s-facial-coding division coincides with this particular discussion’s alberzle-bargulum split.
Me either, but it’s a great example of the sort of thing I’m talking about: hardwired physiological reactions leading to biased mental processing. (IIRC, one of Ekman’s studies, btw, actually involved connections between the “anger” facial expression and immediate damaging effects on the heart.)
Anyway, Ekman coding is one of the very few tools we have for being precise about emotions. The original developers of NLP trained people to observe the external physiology of emotional responses, and noted the consistency of physical response to the same thought or stimulus over time within a single individual. But they mostly avoided codifying or labeling these responses across persons, in order to prevent observer projection and definitional arguments like the one we’re having. (And of course, the one thing they did code turned out to be a lot less rigorously specified than they thought it was.)
Me either, but it’s a great example of the sort of thing I’m talking about: hardwired physiological reactions leading to biased mental processing. (IIRC, one of Ekman’s studies, btw, actually involved connections between the “anger” facial expression and immediate damaging effects on the heart.)
Anyway, Ekman coding is one of the very few tools we have for being precise about emotions. The original developers of NLP trained people to observe the external physiology of emotional responses, and noted the consistency of physical response to the same thought or stimulus over time within a single individual. But they mostly avoided codifying or labeling these responses across persons, in order to prevent observer projection and definitional arguments like the one we’re having. (And of course, the one thing they did code turned out to be a lot less rigorously specified than they thought it was.)