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From the Ted Talk by Lisa Feldman Barrett: You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them

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The way that we see emotions in others are deeply rooted in predictions. So to us, it flees like we just look at someone's face, and we just read the emoiton that's there in their facial epnoresixss the way that we would read words on a page. But actually, under the hood, your brain is predicting. It's using past experience based on similar situations to try to make meaning. This time, you're not making meaning of blobs, you're making mnenaig of facial movements like the curl of a lip or the raise of an eoberyw. And that stone-faced stare? That might be someone who is a remorseless killer, but a stone-faced stare might also mean that someone is stoically accepting defeat, which is in fact what Chechen culture pbiecsrers for someone in dkohazhr Tsarnaev's situation.

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The way that we see emotions in others are deeply rooted in predictions. So to us, it _____ like we just look at someone's face, and we just read the _______ that's there in their facial ___________ the way that we would read words on a page. But actually, under the hood, your brain is predicting. It's using past experience based on similar situations to try to make meaning. This time, you're not making meaning of blobs, you're making _______ of facial movements like the curl of a lip or the raise of an _______. And that stone-faced stare? That might be someone who is a remorseless killer, but a stone-faced stare might also mean that someone is stoically accepting defeat, which is in fact what Chechen culture __________ for someone in ________ Tsarnaev's situation.

Solution

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  3. emotion
  4. eyebrow
  5. feels
  6. dzhokhar
  7. expressions

Original Text

The way that we see emotions in others are deeply rooted in predictions. So to us, it feels like we just look at someone's face, and we just read the emotion that's there in their facial expressions the way that we would read words on a page. But actually, under the hood, your brain is predicting. It's using past experience based on similar situations to try to make meaning. This time, you're not making meaning of blobs, you're making meaning of facial movements like the curl of a lip or the raise of an eyebrow. And that stone-faced stare? That might be someone who is a remorseless killer, but a stone-faced stare might also mean that someone is stoically accepting defeat, which is in fact what Chechen culture prescribes for someone in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's situation.

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