How Emotions Are Made How Emotions Are Made
Expert Thinking

How Emotions Are Made

The Secret Life of the Brain

    • 5.0 • 3 Ratings
    • $12.99
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside you? Most scientists would agree that emotions come from specific parts of the brain, and that we feel them whenever they're triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the sadness of a tear-jerker movie, the fear of losing someone you love - each of these sensations arises automatically and uncontrollably within us, finding expression on our faces and in our behaviour, and carrying us away with the experience.

This understanding of emotion has been around since Aristotle. But what if it's wrong? In How Your Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our ideas about emotion are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date - and that we have been paying the price. Emotions don't exist objectively in nature, Barrett explains, and they aren't pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather, they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.

This new view of emotions has serious implications: when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion, when police officers fire at threatening suspects, or when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another, they're all, in some way, relying on the ancient assumption that emotions are hardwired into our brains and bodies. Revising that conception of emotion isn't just good science, Barrett shows; it's vital to our wellbeing and the health of society itself.

GENRE
Body, Mind & Spirit
RELEASED
2017
26 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pan Macmillan UK
SELLER
Macmillan Publishers Australia and Pan Macmillan Australia
SIZE
10.3
MB

More Books by Lisa Feldman Barrett

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
2021
The Psychological Construction of Emotion The Psychological Construction of Emotion
2014
Handbook of Emotions Handbook of Emotions
2018
Come sono fatte le emozioni Come sono fatte le emozioni
2023
Siebeneinhalb Lektionen über das Gehirn Siebeneinhalb Lektionen über das Gehirn
2023
Wie Gefühle entstehen Wie Gefühle entstehen
2023

Customers Also Bought

Making Sense Making Sense
2020
Rationality Rationality
2021
Fourteen Fourteen
2020
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
2021
Trick Mirror Trick Mirror
2019
Effortless Effortless
2021

Other Books in This Series

Radical Candor Radical Candor
2017
Insight Insight
2017
The Knowledge Illusion The Knowledge Illusion
2017
Move Fast and Break Things Move Fast and Break Things
2017
Risk! Risk!
2018