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Key ideas from the book
- Emotions are constructed in the moment rather than simply triggered as fixed, hardwired reactions.
- Emotion involves systems that interact across the brain, not separate emotion-specific locations.
- Learning across a lifetime contributes to how people experience emotion.
- The theory challenges familiar assumptions about how emotions are expressed and recognized.
- A constructed account of emotion has implications for psychology, health care, law, and child-rearing.
About How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett presents a theory that challenges the idea that emotions are hardwired, automatic reactions housed in separate parts of the brain. She argues that emotions are constructed in the moment through systems working across the brain, shaped in part by a lifetime of learning.
Drawing on research in psychology and neuroscience, Barrett considers what this account may mean for understanding the mind and for fields such as medicine, law, and child-rearing. The book suits readers interested in how emotion works, current debates about the brain, and the wider implications of emotion research.
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