Book · 2023 · Self-Help
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: Charles Darwin's Seminal Study on Emotional Expression
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Darwin's expression of emotion in man and animals is in my view and we're just publishing a paper on this on everything that he said about human emotion. 53 emotions annotated with eight modalities of expressive behavior. I wrote it with Darwin scholar Frank Sulloway.
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- Discussing Darwin's work on emotions“the expression of the emotions in man and animals”6
The best things said about it
Charles Darwin already mentioned in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals he called it principle of antithesis.
Charles Darwin described emotions related to learning and thinking in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
NEIL: He had a whole book on it. STEVEN: A whole book on the expression of the emotions in animals and man.
Steven Pinker StarTalk Radio · Jan 2026 Where and when it comes up
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin is a foundational 1872 scientific work exploring how humans and other species communicate feelings through physical behavior. Ralph Adolphs brought up the book on Huberman Lab to discuss the dimension of valence and the principle of antithesis in emotion. On the same podcast, Dr. Dacher Keltner mentioned the work while describing how he annotated dozens of human emotions with expressive modalities alongside Darwin scholar Frank Sulloway. Steven Pinker discussed the historical text with Neil deGrasse Tyson on StarTalk Radio in the context of universal facial expressions and shared knowledge. Steve Levitt mentioned the volume on People I (Mostly) Admire to compare child observation habits, and a fact-checker on No Stupid Questions cited the book to establish the historical timeline of studying the emotion of interest. Finally, Noam Sobel noted on Huberman Lab that Darwin's text remains relevant in contemporary research, specifically regarding his observations on tears and emotional crying.
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Dr. Dacher Keltner Darwin's expression of emotion in man and animals is in my view and we're just publishing a paper on this o… 1
“Darwin's expression of emotion in man and animals is in my view and we're just publishing a paper on this on everything that he said about human emotion. 53 emotions annotated with eight modalities of expressive behavior. I wrote it with Darwin scholar Frank Sulloway”
Noam Sobel I think till this day in in in Emotion research is is Darwin's book uh uh the showing of the emotions in ma… 1
“I think till this day in in in Emotion research is is Darwin's book uh uh the showing of the emotions in man and animals”
Ralph Adolphs Some are further apart and the simplest dimension which is one that Charles Darwin already mentioned in his… 1
“Some are further apart and the simplest dimension which is one that Charles Darwin already mentioned in his book the expression of the emotion in man and animals he called it principle of antithesis is veilance which is approach or avoid pleasant or unpleasant this basic veilance dimension.”
Steve Levitt it really reminds me of have you ever read Charles Darwin's expression of emotions in man and animals 1
“it really reminds me of have you ever read Charles Darwin's expression of emotions in man and animals”
Steven Pinker NEIL: He had a whole book on it. STEVEN: A whole book on the expression of the emotions in animals and man. 1
“NEIL: He had a whole book on it. STEVEN: A whole book on the expression of the emotions in animals and man.”
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“while it's true that this subject has only become a focus of modern emotion psychology in recent years we should note that in 1872 Charles Darwin described emotions related to learning and thinking in his book the expression of the emotions in man and animals”
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“While it's true that this subject has only become a focus of modern emotion psychology in recent years, we should note that in 1872, Charles Darwin described emotions related to learning and thinking in his book 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.'”