Description: How Emotions Are MadeThe Secret Life of the Brain Author(s): Lisa Feldman Barrett Format: Paperback Publisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom Imprint: Pan Books ISBN-13: 9781509837526, 978-1509837526 Synopsis 'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point. When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you? 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the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common-sense ideas about emotions are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date - and that we have been paying the price.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. 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 well-being and the health of society itself.
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Book Title: How Emotions Are Made
Subject Area: Developmental Psychology, Biological Psychology
Item Height: 196 mm
Item Width: 131 mm
Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett
Publication Name: How Emotions Are Made: the Secret Life of the Brain
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Subject: Science
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 312 g
Number of Pages: 448 Pages