How Emotions Are Made
08 February 2018Synopsis
'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down' – Malcolm Gladwell, author of Talking to Strangers
When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you?
Perhaps you thought of your emotions as automatic and reactive, a response to the world around you. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the fear of losing someone you love – each of these sensations seems to arise automatically and uncontrollably.
But pioneering neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett will shatter everything you think you know with a compelling new argument: emotions aren't universally pre-programmed into our brains and bodies, but rather are unique psychological experiences constructed through our personal history, physiology, and environment.
Relationships, health, parenting, even national security – emotions have serious implications for them all. How Emotions are Made offers a radical new framework that finally, truly, explains what you’re feeling – and why it matters so much.
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08 February 2018
9781509837526Reviews
How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down.Malcolm Gladwell
The definitive field guide to feelings and the neuroscience behind them.Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit
A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since DarwinDaniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness
Meticulous, well-researched, and deeply thought out . . . For anyone who has struggled to reconcile brain and heart, this book will be a treasure; it explains the science without short-changing the humanism of its topic.Andrew Solomon, bestselling author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon
