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How social media changes our emotional expression - Ethan Kross

University of Michigan professor Ethan Kross speaks to the human desire to express emotion and how social media has changed these expressions.

As we’ve heard, social media can impact our emotional states. But how does social media impact how we express these emotions?

Ethan joins us again to speak to the human desire to express emotion and how social media has changed how we express our emotions: at their very peak and in an unfiltered and uninhibited way, which is oftentimes different than how we might express our emotions in person.

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