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How Emotions Are Made
552 pages
A paradigm-shifting journey into the brain that dismantles everything you thought you knew about human feeling.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like stepping into the middle of a profound scientific revolution, one that fundamentally alters how you perceive your own mind. The pacing is steady and deliberate, guiding the reader through complex cognitive science with lucid, accessible prose. It carries an authoritative yet deeply inquisitive tone, systematically dismantling the long-held belief that our feelings are hardwired and universal. Instead, the atmosphere is intellectually stimulating and paradigm-shifting, immersing you in the fascinating interplay of brain, body, and culture. It is a deeply thought-provoking experience that delights curious readers fascinated by psychology and neuroscience, leaving them with a radically transformed understanding of their most intimate experiences and the real-world consequences of how we construct our reality.
- Mood
- intellectually stimulating
- inquisitive
- thought-provoking
- Tone
- lucid
- authoritative
- revelatory
- analytical
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the construction of feeling · brain-body connection · cultural influence on cognition · scientific revolution
- The writing
- Lucid and accessible, translating cutting-edge neuroscience and cognitive psychology into clear, impactful explanations.
- The arc
- Moves from dismantling long-held assumptions about human nature to building a profound new understanding of how we experience the world.
- Who it's for
- Curious minds fascinated by psychology, neuroscience, and the hidden mechanics of human behavior and feeling.
About the book
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.
Description from Open Library.
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