How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

By Barrett, Lisa Feldman

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ISBN
9780544133310 9780544129962
Publisher
Houghton Harcourt


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Starred Review on January 1, 2017  |  Science and Technology

Barrett (psychology, Northeastern Univ.) presents a new neuroscientific explanation of why people are more swayed by feelings than by facts. She offers an unintuitive theory that goes against not only the popular understanding but also that of traditional research: emotions don't arise; rather, we construct them on the fly. Furthermore, emotions are neither universal nor located in specific bra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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