Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions are Made - The Secret Life of the Brain

When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what’s really going on inside of you?
ISBN: 9781509837526
Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Page: 425
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2017
Format: Book
Publisher: PAN BOOKS
Language: English

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Price: 4 725 Ft

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Many scientists believe that emotions come from a specific part of the brain, triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the fear of losing someone we love - each of these sensations seems to arise automatically and uncontrollably from within us, finding expression on our faces and in our behaviour, carrying us away with the experience.

This understanding of emotion has been around since Plato. But what if it is wrong? In How Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common-sense ideas about emotions are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date - and that we have been paying the price. Emotions aren’t universally 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.

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