Sunday, September 4, 2011

Week 2 Discussion Questions

Question 1: The first article said that romantic love is present in cultures that have folklore and love songs.  Do you agree that these are proper indicators of this?  Does singing and talking about the existence of true love really prove that it is there?

Question 2:  The second article mentioned that some preliterate cultures had difficulty distinguishing between the emotions of fear and surprise.  Are there emotions in our culture that are so closely linked that we have trouble distinguishing between them?

Question 3:  The third article described the "in-group advantage" but at the same time it said that minority group members sometimes understood the emotions of the majority group members than they did their own.  How can these ideas exist at the same time?  Or, do you think these are too contradictory?

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