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Most people don’t appreciate how often emotions influence their thinking, decision-making, and behaviours. Two recent items have reinforced this idea for me. The first is research on social interactions among primates and bats (Science, 2021-10-24). A reviewer of the study asked, “What if embedding the brain in a group changed how it works?”