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b'ENCORE\\xa0Get ready for compassionate computers that feel your pain, share your joy, and generally get where you\\u2019re coming from.\\xa0Computers that can tell by your voice whether you\\u2019re pumped up or feeling down, or sense changes in heart rate, skin, or muscle tension to determine your mood.\\xa0Empathetic electronics that you can relate to.\\nBut wait a minute \\u2013 we don\\u2019t always relate to other\\xa0humans.\\xa0Our behavior can be impulsive and even self-sabotaging \\u2013 our emotions are often conflicted and irrational.\\xa0\\xa0We cry when we\\u2019re happy.\\xa0Frown when we\\u2019re pensive.\\xa0A suite of factors, much of them out of our control, govern how we behave, from genes to hormones to childhood experience.\\xa0\\nOne study says that all it takes for a defendant to receive a harsher sentence is a reduction in the presiding judge\\u2019s blood sugar.\\nSo grab a cookie, and find out how the heck we can build computers that understand us anyway.\\xa0\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nRosalind Picard\\xa0\\u2013 Professor at the MIT Media Lab and co-founder of the companies Affectiva and Empatica.\\xa0\\n\\n\\nRobert Sapolsky\\xa0\\u2013 Professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and author of\\xa0Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.\\xa0\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'