Lawrence Ian Reed, PhD – Understanding Human Emotions

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• Lawrence Ian Reed, PhD – Understanding Human EmotionsLawrence Ian Reed, PhDEmotions color our cognitive processes and shape our social relationships.

• Discover a newfound appreciation for those feelings that underscore the most important moments of your life.InstitutionNew York UniversityAlma materUniversity of PittsburghCourse OverviewWhile we as humans have developed significant physical adaptations for our survival and success, there are some crucial adaptations we often overlook.

• Physical attributes—walking on two legs, opposable thumbs, stereoscopic vision, complex vocal cords, and more—don’t completely explain our species’ success.

• While many of us would instead point to the human brain, and the resulting human mind, as our most significant adaptation, we actually have astonishing adaptive features that are often overlooked: our emotions.Our emotions are vital tools in our arsenal of adaptions, ones that we rarely consider or appreciate as a survival mechanism.

• Some of us might even label emotions as negative or feel they do nothing but get in our way.