Emotions are the backbone of our relationships and our survival. Without them, we’d fail to connect with those closest to us and lack the fight-or-flight impulses to act when in peril. But when emotions unduly influence our decisions, it can lead to harmful outcomes and evoke beliefs where evidence does not exist. “The orator persuades his hearers when they are roused to emotion,” wrote Aristotle in Rhetoric,“For the judgments we deliver are not the same when we are influenced by joy or sorrow, love or hate.”
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