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Naming Emotions

Michael Rosen asks Tiffany Watt Smith about the words we use to try and describe our emotions and what that can tell us about the way we feel now and have felt in the past.

Michael Rosen talks to Dr Tiffany Watt Smith about the words we use to try and describe our emotions, and what that can tell us about the way we feel now and have felt at different times in the past. Sadness once occupied the place that happiness now does in terms of life aspirations, and nostalgia was listed as a cause of death on death certificates - in the twentieth century.
Producer Beth O'Dea.

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Mon 30 Apr 2018 23:00

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