Abstract
Commercial drugs designed to induce or manipulate emotions are not new. Caffeine and alcohol have been used for centuries to perk us up, calm us down, and smooth social encounters (Young, 2003). More recent findings that acetaminophen may reduce emotional pain (Bakalar, 2015) might lower our perception of social harms, and discussion of a popular wrinkle-removal procedure’s possible influence on our emotional expressiveness (Mundasad, 2014) might lead to stunted social development.
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Meyer, C. (2016). Manipulating Emotions. In: Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505545_14
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