Political Morality in Your Brain | Elisabeth Wehling | TEDxBerlin

Описание: For more information on Elisabeth Wehling, please visit our website www.tedxberlin.de Elisabeth Wehling, PhD., is a bestselling author and cognitive linguist at the University of California, Berkeley. Using methods from neuroscience, experimental psychology, and discourse analysis, her work tackles a set of simple yet deep questions: How is the mind structured? Where do these structures come from? And how does the way we speak impact our social, economic, and political beliefs? Contrary to common folk theory, human thought is not an abstract, merely fact-driven system. Rather, thought arises from how our bodies interact with the world: Physical experiences with things like motion, emotions, sights, smells, sounds, and tactile
perception structure our mind and language and, in turn, in uence how we perceive the world.
Elisabeth’s books include The Little Blue Book (2012) and Your Brain’s Politics (2016) with George Lakoff and the German SPIEGEL- bestseller Politisches Framing (2016). She
is co-founder of the journal Moral Cognition and Communication and a leading expert for embodied cognition working with politicians, NGOs, governments, industry, and media institutions across the globe. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx