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Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind.
“Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”??—??The Wall Street Journal
“A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.”??—??Scientific American
“A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.”??—??Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.
A lucid report from the cutting edge of emotion science, How Emotions Are Made reveals the profound real-world consequences of this breakthrough for everything from neuroscience and medicine to the legal system and even national security, laying bare the immense implications of our latest and most intimate scientific revolution.
“Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science.”??—??The Wall Street Journal
“A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented.”??—??Scientific American
“A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin.”??—??Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.
A lucid report from the cutting edge of emotion science, How Emotions Are Made reveals the profound real-world consequences of this breakthrough for everything from neuroscience and medicine to the legal system and even national security, laying bare the immense implications of our latest and most intimate scientific revolution.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett
LISA FELDMAN BARRETT, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for her groundbreaking research on emotion in the brain, and is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada. Barrett is the author of How Emotions are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/53.5 stars if I could have. Rounded down instead of up because of the length - not a huge book but it could have been shorter easily.
What I liked was some good ideas about emotions being to a large part socially constructed things, not simple modules like "despair" or "jealousy" that all humans share. In general she made very good points against essentialism in psychology and in all areas, and I really agree about that.
I didn't like the writing style much. I couldn't have done a better job myself of course, so I feel a little bad sniping. But I'm sure she's more of a scientist than a writer. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ballsy, ambitious, I'm 70% convinced.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You read a lot of books, but sometimes one comes along that changes the way you look at the world . And in this case also yourself. Lucid, clear and funny.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5He empezado a leer por tercera vez este libro… es una obra extraordinaria que desmantela el paradigma clásico de las emociones y nos presenta la teoría de las emociones construidas de una manera amena y sagaz. Esencial para aprender más acerca de cómo hemos evolucionado y cómo funciona la mente humana, sin duda uno de los mejores que he leído ✨
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic eye opening, concept shattering, emotion generating and simple enough for non biologist!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome new perspective about not just emotions but ourselves, the human being.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A fantastic book on how "Essentialism", a concept that means things have a set of characteristics that make them what they are, has been used to explain how and where emotions are made and located in the brain, and how this method is totally wrong. This book, at times, absolutely blew my mind. Using rigorous studies in psychology and neuroscience, Barrett and her lab has shattered all the old ideas of how we form emotions, and even how we form ourselves. If you are at all interested in psychology, read this book.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very interesting science and theories about emotion but an incredibly long book that gets quite hard to get through. I wish she had spent more time on how to manage your emotions, and strategies vs the arguments for her theories.