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A stimuli may trigger an emotion in one social context but not in another, he said. And some emotions, such as compassion and awe, can only exist in a social framework.
“He was thinking [about emotion] as a biologist,” he said, “and connected it to social behavior in a very clear way.”
“One thing we should do now is study social emotion,” he said. “This is the next step for biologists.”
“Science is morally neutral,” said Damasio, who is also an expert in the classics and contemporary philosophy. “But when you look at [the aspect] of emotion that is social, the neutrality vanishes.”
Damasio, who serves as Van Allen professor at the University of Iown Medical Center and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in San Diego, has written two other books on the subject of emotion, Descartes’s Error and The Feeling of What Happens.